Giving Talk this Sunday in D.C. at The Shakespeare Theatre

Link: The Wicked Stage: Performing Christianity

Despite the Reformationist tone of the title, I will also talk about Christian theatre that is not always terribly wicked.

Monkbot

See also, NPR radiolab programming on 16th century automaton built by a Spanish clockmaker for King Phillip II:  http://www.radiolab.org/story/317902-meet-monkbot/

Arthur Zajonc, Prof. Emeritus at Amherst College, discusses "contemplative science" -- a philosophical, attention-based approach to scientific understanding.

Experiential approach to scientific-spiritual understanding

Zajonc discusses Goethe's proposal that science is not only about finding the mechanisms behind the "theatre of the senses," rather to understand being from an experiential point of view.

Scientific insight comes in a flash, it is a moment of transcendence -- a moment of perception -- what is the sensory-moral.  Poetry is at the heart of science.

"Knowledge is not an object that you acquire, it's not a mechanism that you provide to the human mind. It's actually an epiphanal moment." Which is true to the arts,  science, and faith.