The church is the Body of Christ, and as such it has many organs. This week we consider how best the church can achieve a healthy balance between head, hand and heart.

The Hopi Indians have a tradition that contrasts "head knowledge" with "heart knowledge - a tradition that respects the strengths of both ways of knowing. Western culture has been less equal handed, for while it has recognized the existence of other ways of examining the world, it has steadfastly relegated any deviations from "head knowledge" to the back of the bus.

The sciences blossomed during the Age of Enlightenment, and with their successes came an increased admiration for the "scientific method." We entered the Age of Modernity totally smitten by facts and figures, by the hypotheses and data counts of a scientificall…