ANJAN CHAKRAVARTTY ’91 has edited Science and Humanism: Knowledge, Values, and the Common Good, a collection of essays that revisits the long and deeply connected relationship between humanistic thought and scientific inquiry. The book explores the hope that science can improve the human condition, looking at cases in which it has failed, succeeded, and could do more to promote our collective welfare. It is also available as an Open Access title. (Cambridge University Press)
MAGGIE HELWIG ’11 has written Instructions for the End of the World: Homilies of Comfort and Resistance, a selection of homilies delivered to her congregation over the past five years. An Anglican priest and longtime activist, Helwig reads the Bible through both a social justice and a literary lens, drawing hope and meaning from the ancient texts for readers facing the anxieties of our time, whether or not they are religious. (Coach House Books)
ALICE MAJOR ’71 has written Triangularity: Essays on Poetry, Science and Spirit, a collection of braided personal essays on three subjects that have shaped her since childhood: the stories she heard in Sunday school, the rhymes she began writing at seven, and a chemistry set she received one Christmas. Although she became neither a scientist nor a churchgoer, she did become a poet, and she explores what words like “truth,” “love,” and “belief” mean within the shape those three threads enclose. The book also includes some of her poems and reflections on her craft. (University of Alberta Press)
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