Faith and Science
The writer Mary Doria Russell has said, To me, religion seems very much like music. No one would argue that music is the opposite of science. No one would expect a scientist to reject music, simply because it is not a collection of empirical facts organized into a body of theory that generates testable hypotheses.…
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Of Cats and Bells
Today, I saw a house-cat hunting a squirrel. The cat crept up on the unsuspecting creature, carefully trying to get within range of a giant leap and an unleashing of claws and teeth. One could see thousands of years of instincts and intuition, passed down from ancient ancestors, coiled up in the body of this…
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Eclipses and Eggs
Annie Dillard went to see a total eclipse of the sun in 1979 and wrote about it in “Total Eclipse,” published as part of her book, Teaching a Stone to Talk. She speaks of the terrifying nature of a total eclipse and says that “Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a…
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What Have We Become?
With all that is going on in the world, this DC Talk song came to my mind. It seems that there is a lot of hate and selfishness in our world today. Each of us needs to examine our hearts to see what darkness lies inside. What Have We Become? (performed by DC Talk) (listen…
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Unmerited Grace
The last ten minutes of a Steve Taylor interview on the Cultivated podcast from April 15, 2017, describes the tension felt by Steve Taylor and a great many other artists. Interviewer: “I want to talk about the impulse to be an artist, the impulse to make these things and send them out into the world.…
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