The faculty at Calvin College are encouraged and even required to regularly reflect on the integration of faith and learning, especially as they relate to computer science and information systems. Here are some essays from our own faculty as well as links to other related work.

• Joel Adams
  • Why Christians Should Study Computer Science (and other technical disciplines)
  • Computing Technology: Created, Fallen, In Need Of Redemption?
  • A Christian Perspective On Computing
• Pat Bailey
  • Dynamic Link: A Journal of Christian Perspectives on Software Development
  • The Faith Integration and Software Development Project
• Harry Plantinga
  • Christianity and Computer Science
• Keith Vander Linden
  • Computing in the Image of God
  • Notes on Intelligent Machines

Other Essays on Christianity and Computing

• Forming a Christian View of Computer Technology, from the ACMS Journal, by Derek Schuurman of Redeemer University College (2007)
• From Kim Kihlstrom of Westmont College:
  • Asserting CS != Can’t Socialize: Building Community in a Computer Science Program (2006)
  • Men Are From the Server Side, Women Are From The Client Side (2002)
• Object Information Repository in a Christian Theory of Technology, from the ACMS Journal, by Longy O. Anyanwu, of Trinity Christian College (2006)
• Computer Origins and the Defense of the Faith, by John Warwick Montgomery from the Journal of the American Scientific Affliliation (2004)
• Used Body For Sale (2003), by Eric Gosset of Bethel College (Minnesota).
• From Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired):
  • How Computer Nerds Describe God (2002), from Christianity Today
  • God Is the Machine (2002), from Wired
  • Nerd Theology (1999) from Kevin Kelly’s website
• From the Donald Knuth:
  • Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (2001)
  • 3:16 Bible Texts Illuminated (1990)
• From Anne Foerst:
  • Why Robots Are Scary—And Cool (2005)
  • Commander Data: A Candidate for Harvard Divinity School? (2000)
  • The God and Computers Project (1997-1999) at MIT.
• The Great Experimenter by James Morse, from the Journal of the American Scientific Affiliation (1997)
• Computers and the Information Revolution by Kerby Anderson of Probe Ministries (1997)
• The Y2K Psalm (undated, anonymous).
• Parables for Modern Academia (1996), by Loren and Debra Haarsma.
• The Assumptions of Computing (1994), by Jim Huggins of Kettering University.
• An Essay on Orthodox Faith and Programming (undated) from the Free Orthodox Software website.
• Ethics in Computer Science (undated), by J. Barry DeRoos of Messiah College.
• Computer Science and Christianity, a page of resources by Gene Chase of Messiah College.

Less Serious Links

• Umberto Eco’s Mac is Caltholic, DOS is Protestant Essay (1994)
• Joel Adams’ Response to Eco’s Essay (1994)
• Thomas Scoville’s article Martin Luther, meet Linus Torvalds (1998)
• The C Bible
• In the Beginning…
• Ten Commandments of DOS
• If God were a Programmer
• If Religions Were Programming Languages
• The Twelve Bugs of Christmas