Posts Tagged ‘God and Science’

God and science — the elephant in the laboratory

Friday, September 19th, 2014

Some say they were pursued by the Hound of Heaven, a Grace that would not take leave, not in the “nights”or “down the days,” the “arches of the years” or the “labyrinthine ways.” That poetry never much resonated with me. The first time I heard it I wondered, “At what rate did he travel, this hound?” Poetry is hard for literalists to Read more

Challenging God as nothing at all

Tuesday, October 9th, 2012

Rainbows are a universal sign of hope, although they only exist in the eyes of the people who see them and sometimes in their photographs. How intriguing then that biblical storytellers saw this trick of light as the sign of God’s promise.  Talking about the God that was nowhere to be seen before science discovered the unsettling Read more