As we enter the season when we remember the birth of the Christ Child, I feel called to live into the mystery of the Incarnation. Though I am a scientist, this is no contradiction. The reality science elucidates appears increasingly mysterious. How did light begin? A century ago, science gave us greater certainty. Einstein revised…
She is not one of the better-known women of the Bible and appears in only a few verses at the beginning of the gospel of Luke (2:36-39). The prophet Anna endured a long life and saw some of the most difficult events in Israel’s troubled history. As a descendant of Jacob’s son Asher, she is…
My kids still occasionally request “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” at bedtime, so I thought of the soothing song of simple, distant wonder as I opened Holy Night and Little Star. This book’s Little Star, however, is not distant and her emotions are not simple; she’s a very relatable astronomical object. Mitali Perkins and Khoa Le’s…
As a Christian scientist, there are questions I do not have answers to and often do not understand. A source of many questions is the scale of the universe in contrast to the particulars of our faith. The universe is large and old, reflective of the power of our God, but our faith hangs on…
“Mom, Aunt Mel – Look!” Everyone came pouring into the living room. Two teens proudly held out a small package. I could see something dun-coloured under the plastic, but it was unrecognizable. “Guess what?” they said happily. “We shrink wrapped a hot-dog bun!” “Stop putting random things through that,” Jeff groused, without any real anger…
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