S3 24: Learning to Know and Love God with Our Minds With Melissa Cain Travis

Our guest today is Dr. Melissa Cain Travis, an Affiliate Faculty member at Colorado Christian University’s Lee Strobel Center for Evangelism and Applied Apologetics. Melissa loves to read about, talk about, teach about, and discuss ideas—from philosophy to faith to the relationship between faith and science. We talk about the importance of “intellectual discipleship”: loving God with our minds, including how to foster that love in small, doable ways in our learning, with those around us, and in our own churches.     Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility by Dr. Melissa Cain Travis  A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles   From the Garden to the City: The Place of Technology in the Story of God by John Dyer   Remembering by Wendell Berry  The Truth About Science and Religion: From the Big Bang to Neuroscience by Fraser Fleming and Gary Ferngrin  Exhalation by Ted Chang  Society for Women of Letters Symposium  Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine (the woman she would like to have coffee with)   “Mind Your Mind” by Annie Brownell Crawford and Melissa Cain Travis, Salvo Magazine   Course Dr. Travis is teaching at DiscoveryU later in the summer The Worldview Bulletin    Strong Women listeners, we're excited to offer the Colson Center National Conference...ONLINE! Use promo code Strongwomen (all one word) to get $5 off the $49 ticket price. For one low price, you can experience all the main stage talks, breakouts, and panel discussions from our annual Christian worldview conference at your own leisure. Visit colsonconference.org for full event details and registration.      Help us equip individuals and institutions to bring restoration to their spheres of influence—for the advance of the Kingdom and the flourishing of culture. Give to support our fiscal-year-end goal at colsoncenter.org/fye23!    Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/  The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women   Join Strong Women on Social Media:   https://www.facebook.com/StrongWomenCC  https://www.facebook.com/groups/strongwomencommunitycc/  https://www.instagram.com/strongwomencc/