A friend who also has a healthy interest in physics lent me a book recently: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism, by Fritjof Capra. The book, originally written in 1976, describes a number of parallels or points of agreement between modern physics, especially particle physics, and…

This kind of innovation requires being grounded in tradition, steeped in it so completely that it shapes your thinking and guides improvisation.

Given the likely emergence of a future in which humans inhabit multiple planets, what resources do the Bible and Christian theology contain for helping people of faith think it through? What can and should guide us as we try to discern what it means to be a faithful person and a community of faith in…

So I’m (re)learning physics. As a part of this new endeavor to think theologically about the implications of space exploration and a human presence on other worlds, I’m starting to learn physics again. I’ve seen enough sloppy theology to know how unhelpful the results can be when someone in an unrelated field learns a little…

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When we see more of the universe, we see just how big our God is, and God’s promises to us become that much richer, that much bigger, taking on scales that defy our imagination.

This pale blue dot is the only place where life as we know it grew up and still lives. It’s the only place we know where there are intelligent creatures capable of understanding the significance of big and small, of adopting a perspective that humbles us. And as far as we can tell, it’s the…

There’s something beautiful about Aldrin’s description of communion, which includes the detail that the wine swirled a bit and took a while to settle in the moon’s gravity, which is one-sixth that of earth. Even in a place where the physical laws feel different, God’s grace is there. God is there.