When I looked in the evening sky and found Venus right where I expected it to be, I connected in my own small way with that order and regularity. I experienced the goodness of it.

Thank you, Stephen Hawking, for sharing your insights and discoveries with so many of us. We don’t understand everything, but we understand things a little bit better because of you.

God makes a connection between the trustworthiness of his promise and the vastness of creation.

As my wife Amy will tell you, I am excited for the movie version of A Wrinkle in Time. I geeked out pretty hard over the trailer for it before Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Amy has joked with me that she only watches sci-fi movies if they star Chris Pine. Much to my delight…

The search for extraterrestrial life is picking up steam. What does it mean for Christian theology?

On Tuesday, SpaceX launched a successful test flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket, which is the most powerful rocket since the Saturn V that launched the Apollo astronauts to the moon. Aside from the milestone of a private company launching such a powerful rocket, there was an added cool factor: the payload was founder Elon…

What would I write about? I wrestled and prayed about this a lot, actually. The answer that came to me was surprising: space and theology. Weird, huh?

Where do you find God? Where do you find meaning and purpose in the connections between things in our world? Where might we find God in exploring space?

To ask about “before” is to ask about cause, to ask about meaning, to ask about purpose.

Several months ago I had a dream that I was flying through space. I may have been in a space ship, or I may have just been hyper aware of the earth’s orbit around the sun. But it seemed to me that I was on my own, suspended in the midst of a void, flying…