James Webb Telescope: The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
From ancient times, we have peered into the skies seeking to understand the magnitude of God’s handiwork… This quest has led theologians and scientists alike to peer into the skies for clues to help them build and support cosmogonic theories. So, following this great tradition of scientific and theological inquiry, the James Webb space telescope images provide us with the latest window into God’s creative impetus.
Devotional: Beauty is God-Deep
Beauty is the very structure of the universe… put simply what God has imprinted on this world. And that’s why God’s creation is “Very Good.”
Little Big
We’ve had this remarkable evening, year after year, on which we come together for a little while to sing songs, to pray in hopes of feeling connected, to hear a story of a little place that comes out big, of a fleeting moment that turns out to be eternal, of an event that seems insignificance in a world of big plans and big ideas and big struggles, but that becomes the beginning of the most potent, meaningful, and world-changing story of all.
The Science of Awe
The emotion of awe can be a bridge between science and faith. Just as worship can bring us to our knees, so can our experience of the natural world that science reveals to us. In recent years, awe has become a subject of scientific study and psychologists are beginning to understand the impact it has on us.
Wonders of the Living World
This video series seeks to convey to lay people “the beauty and awe that a biologist feels – and how that fits in with belief in a loving, purposeful God.”
What do we know about awe and wonder?
In this video (29:41), researcher Dacher Keltner...
How big is the universe? How small is the smallest part of creation?
From the micro to the macro – the scale of God’s creation is hard to comprehend. Here’s a video to help you wrap your head around the smallest and largest things we know of – with some humor sandwiched in between.
NASA Image Galleries
NASA allows us to join in the wonder astronomers experience through the thousands of images that they publish.
Beauty: A Bridge Between Faith and Science?
It is important to take a break from operating solely in the “truth sphere.” Goodness and beauty are two other realms that are essential to humans (think ethics and aesthetics), and both tell us something important about God (the very essence of goodness and beauty). And in the case of beauty, I think we have a powerful point of connection between faith and science.
WOW
Conceptual studies of awe note that it has its roots in “fear and dread, particularly toward a divine being.” But the common understanding of awe today is no longer fear of God but most often that feeling we get in an encounter with nature. The feeling can be both positive (sunsets) or negative (tornadoes)—or it can even be tinged with fear (standing at the edge of Niagara Falls)… So what does the experience of awe do to us (or for us)?