The Divine Universe

The story of the universe is a story of new things. The current version, informed by post-modern science, begins with the Big Bang. From the initial “singularity”, as it is called, new things have continually emerged, and there is no sign that novelty will not continue to be the pattern of the future. New biological [...]

Some of us have doubts about angels from the start. I confess that I am sceptical about good-looking, androgenous, extra-terrestrial humanoids with big wings, musical instruments and shiny halos. But the word angel simply means messenger. In the epic narratives of the Bible, individuals received messages of great significance from time to time in a [...]