ITEMS OF INTEREST April 7, 2008 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

with contributions from Daniela Perdomo, Anjana Pasricha

TEN PROMINENT JOURNALISTS from the United States and the United Kingdom have been selected for the fourth annual Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowships in Science and Religion. Widely praised since their launch in 2004, the fellowships include a program of research and scholarship at the University of Cambridge in England. [The fellows were announced on February 28—see www.Templeton-Cambridge.org for the full list.] ...

The relationship of science and religion is a subject of increasing scrutiny today. After decades during which leading voices from science and religion viewed each other with suspicion and little sense of how the two areas might relate, recent years have brought an active pursuit of understanding how science may deepen theological awareness, for example, or how religious traditions might illuminate the scientific realm....

"The story of science and religion, with its deep roots in the past, has grown into one of the most complex, challenging, and important stories of our time," says Templeton-Cambridge Fellowships Co-director Sir Brian Heap, Research Associate, University of Cambridge. "This program aims to support the outstanding journalists selected for the fellowships in covering this story with the depth, rigor, and thoroughness that it requires and deserves."

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