The human soul, or the part of us that eternally continues forth after death, is often addressed in topics of consciousness. The soul has been treated as something immaterial or non-physical in the history of the Church. This article explores what the Bible says about the soul alongside the neuroscience of consciousness.

What happens when the non-physical narrative world touches the objective, physical world of biology?

This article uses Romans 6:16 and the science of neurobiology to defend compatibilism, which is the viewpoint that free-will and determinism do not have to logically contradict.

Whether you are a Christian or an atheist, your perception of God will not remain the same throughout life. You may shift sides of the debate more often than you want to admit.

Here, I want to discuss Antonio Damasio’s perspective of bioelectrical computations of human intelligence that separates us from the intelligence of bacteria. Though Damasio does not appear to be a non-materialist, I gather from him some non-materialist support for mind/consciousness that I think has some relevance to the Christian spiritual neuroscience of Curt Thompson. This leads me to a conclusion about the importance of having the mind of Christ that should shape our social lives and thinking patterns.

Here, I want to explain the perspective of atheist and evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, who defends a Darwinian understanding of the origins of human morality. He draws some valid parallels between animals and humans but fails to recognize how humans can make distinct moral choices that animals cannot.

I believe that God’s design of the human mind and human subjectivity separates us from computers and machines. Read the article to find out why I believe this.

What differences can be felt in one’s health while practicing Christian spirituality versus not practicing? I think science and the Bible have something to say about this: prayer to God and socialization with His people have health benefits.

Do you believe that we are naive realists? Our perception is like a tunnel through which we see reality with peripheries that do not allow all stimuli to enter. Though we are limited in perception, our stubbornness and argumentativeness makes it seem that we like to think we know it all, making us naive realists at heart. What does psychology and neuroscience have to say about all of this?

Should we always assume that the placebo effect heals us instead of God? Is the naturalistic explanation always the best explanation? What should we think about miracles that are not explained by the placebo effect?

This article discusses Michael Engor, who is a practicing neurosurgeon, a professor of neurology at Stony Brook University, and an Intelligent Design advocate. This article discusses Engor’s interpretations of the soul in the Nobel Prize-winning split-brain research of Roger Sperry from the 1960’s.

Some great thinkers in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry have expressed that we need to move beyond materialism. Some of them are Roger Sperry, Iain McGilchrist, and Sharon Dirckx. You can read about them here.

Are miracles false, exaggerated, and misperceived events? Or do they truly happen? This takes a look at Lee Strobel’s book The Case For Miracles.

Dealing with unsafe people? What will the Bible and the science of psychology say together?

Your emotional attachments to your parents and how they treated you during childhood has influenced your perception of God in your adulthood.

Did you struggle to make sense of God when you were a child? Did you feel scared out of your mind? Maybe it is because young mind’s cannot process something so scary, like an all-powerful God.

Why can we not find any spirit or soul in human biology?

Does hatred give us a sense of purpose and significance? Does it help to hate collective and abstract entities instead of concrete individuals? Perhaps our love for hating Satan would say ‘yes.’

What is the true nature of a man’s sex drive? The Bible says we could destroy ourselves for pleasing our sinful nature. Is that true?

How should our sexual thoughts define us in a world where humanism states we are “innately good” but Christianity states we are innately evil?