We encourage you to explore the religion section and science (and/or health) section of major media outlets to stay abreast of the latest news.

For example, the BBC has news on religion and science/nature with news on health organized separately.

In contrast, while the New York Times has science and health it does not, as far as we can tell, have religion in its own section. Religion-related stories are in all departments, but not gathered under an umbrella link.

Of course, you can use "Google News" to search for combined terms such as "evolution curriculum" or "human cloning" to do a topic-specific news search.

Along with news-oriented Web sites, the following Web sites provide resources on science and religion. We encourage you to explore these sites after forum events and hope that they will help continue the life science and religion conversations.

Metanexus Institute
Publishes newsletter, provides links to the monthly newspaper “Science and Theology News” which is written in a very accessible manner with many book reviews, interviews, and summaries of current events relevant to science and religion.

Counterbalance Foundation
Extensive resources on the evolution/creation controversy, biomedical ethical challenges and much more.

Zygon Center for Religion and Science
This group has for many years published a journal dedicated to science and religion, which is available at the VCU JBCabell library.

Center for Islam and Science
Dedicated to the promotion of research and diffusion of knowledge on all aspects of Islam and science.

AAAS DOSER
American Association for the Advancement of Science has a special project site for Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion.

American Scientific Affiliation
ASA is a fellowship of men and women in science and disciplines that relate to science who share a common fidelity to the Word of God and a commitment to integrity in the practice of science.

Center for Theology and Natural Science
The mission of CTNS is to promote the creative mutual interaction between theology and the natural sciences. CTNS is an international non-profit membership organization dedicated to research, teaching and public service. It focuses on the relation between the natural sciences including physics, cosmology, evolutionary and molecular biology, as well as technology and the environment, and Christian theology and ethics.

John Templeton Foundation
A major source of funding for efforts to integrate science and religion.

The European Society for the Study of Science and Theology
ESSSAT is a scholarly, non-confessional organization, based in Europe, which aims to promote the study of relationships between the natural sciences and theological views. ESSSAT has members from almost every European country as well as members from other continents. They have different confessional backgrounds, and may include believers as well as non-believers and atheists. As scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians they work on a better understanding of the interactions between two of the most powerful human pursuits, namely religion and science.

Secrets of the Sequence
VCU's "Secrets of the Sequence" is a featured resource item on the New York Times College Web page. On that first page, on the right-hand side under "Extracurriculars," is the link.

What about bio-medical ethics?
Well, the Community Forum is not about ethics per se, because ethics and faith are not the same things. Certainly there are resources out there such as the Hastings Center Report (available electronically via Infotrac on the VCU Libraries Web site), the President's Commission on Bioethics, and ethics centers at many universities around the country.