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As a bit of a transition between series, I wanted to offer this list of things the Universe has learned over its 13 billion years of existence according to Born with a Bang: The Universe Tells Our Cosmic Story by Jennifer Morgan and illustrated by Dana Lynne Anderson....
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The pneuma divina verse chosen during Sunday’s episode (by the way, didn’t those Skype guests rock? LOL) was Jesus telling his detractors that if the crowds were silent then the rocks themselves would shout out in praise. It got me thinking about rocks....
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I. Approaching the Event Horizon: My Story My faith died during Holy Week in 1992, while in my second year of the Ph.D. program at Princeton Theological Seminary. By “died,” I mean that I not only lost it, but was so entirely lost that there wasn’t even a glimmer of...
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In the last few weeks, our focus at Darkwood Brew has shifted from the macro (universe) to the micro (DNA and cells). This week, I was again awed as I listened to Darkwood Brew guest Professor Gayle Woloschak describe the extraordinary uses of nanotechnology in the...
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A few weeks ago, I blogged about some favorite quotes that I rotate and keep in my car. One of them was from a podcast, when asked what he thought a kick arce life was, the guy replied, “You don’t know what your limits are, so you don’t have them.” And then all this...
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The World Series of Birding (yes, there is a World Series of Birding ) is a little over a month away so the assembling of a team is high on my current list of priorities. For nearly two decades I’ve competed with a varying assemblage of team mates under the...
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Fellow blogger Ian Lynch and I agreed this week: The latest Darkwood Brew series “Evolving Science/Evolving Faith” has taught us so much about scientific achievements that we feel as though our heads are about to explode. Preparing to write this...
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I. King Kong and Crosses I’ll never forget my first visit to the Empire State Building in New York City. It was 1977. I was a Boy Scout, traveling with my troop on its way to the National Jamboree in Moraine State Park, Pennsylvania. As we packed ourselves tightly...
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By Cynthia Astle One thing about being behind in your work: sometimes you get an unexpected blessing from the delay. This week’s blessing came in the March 14 news that scientists at the European supercollider CERN have confirmed the existence of the Higgs...
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My husband Chris surprised me the other day when he stumbled on to The Secret on Netflix the other night. It’s not his normal genre of movies. But he watched it and he liked it. I’d read the book when it came out back when Oprah still had a show, I figured it would be...
