Blog Interdisciplinary Research as a Sharing of Gifts, Part 1 For all their economic vulnerabilities, small Christian colleges, and universities might be the ideal environment…Clayton D. CarlsonJuly 24, 2023
Blog I Don’t Want My Students to Be Well-rounded I recently found myself explaining again the value of a liberal arts education. I fell…Clayton D. CarlsonMarch 28, 2023
Blog Cancer “treatments” I am convinced that future generations will look back on the way we treat cancer…Clayton D. CarlsonNovember 16, 2022
Blog In Defense of Committee Meetings My institution “has a proud tradition of faculty governance,” as a colleague once euphemistically summarized…Clayton D. CarlsonSeptember 29, 2022
Blog The Importance Of How We Describe “The way in which we describe the world determines what we think we see. What…Clayton D. CarlsonAugust 18, 2022
Blog “No One Knows How Hard I Worked”: Responding with Christian Vision and Gratitude to the Pandemic Load “No one knows how hard I worked.” That seems to be the repeating chorus from…Clayton D. CarlsonApril 19, 2022
Blog The gifts of advising day Receiving another person’s story is always a privilege. Whether in therapy, confession, interview, or conversation,…Clayton D. CarlsonNovember 29, 2021
Blog Those Data Points Are People Trying to keep abreast of the relevant findings about SARS-Cov-2 is a fully time job…Clayton D. CarlsonSeptember 8, 2021
Blog Kind or Degree The 2021 winner of the Templeton prize is Dr. Jane Goodall. Dr. Goodall is, of…Clayton D. CarlsonMay 28, 2021
Blog Choosing How to Explain The Choice A Virus Makes In the preface of his book, A Genetic Switch, famed molecular biologist Mark Ptashne writes…Clayton D. CarlsonApril 30, 2021
Blog Attention and Love In the midst of the fear and uncertainty of the pandemic, while trying to figure…Clayton D. CarlsonApril 7, 2021
Blog Counting the Saved In the first weeks of 2021, during what were (please God) the deadliest days of…Clayton D. CarlsonMarch 4, 2021
Blog What is Won and Lost in a Virtual Lab? For ten months my laboratory has sat empty and dark. But it is never quiet.…Clayton D. CarlsonJanuary 28, 2021
Book Review Adam and the Genome: Reading Scripture after Genetic Science The 2005 publication of a comparison of the chimpanzee genome and the human genome revealed…Clayton D. CarlsonJanuary 15, 2018
Reviews A Little Book for New Scientists: Why and How to Study Science The intersection of science and faith can lead to tension among Christian believers and confusion…Clayton D. CarlsonJuly 15, 2017
Article Deeply Connected to God’s Good World, the Human Microbiome Advances in DNA sequencing technologies are revolutionizing our understanding of microbial populations on and within…Michael Kunnen and Clayton D. CarlsonJanuary 15, 2017