In this month’s Reform physicist and theologian John Polkinghorne explains why for him science and religion are two cousinly halves of the same reality. His approach to both fields is through “bottom up thinking”. He explains:

“We don’t tend to ask: is it reasonable? – as if we knew beforehand the shape that reason had to take. But what we do ask is: “What makes you think that might be the case?”

Article: John Polkinghorne: motivations for belief

Also in Reform this month:

• Alan Spence asks questions about the atonement
• Robert Crawford uses Darwin’s 200th birthday as a launchpad into a whistlestop tour of creation viewpoints
• We have extracts of new books from Adrian Plass and Sister Lavinia Byrne.