By Mark W. Ohlemeier On Christmas Eve in 1968, three American astronauts became the first human beings to travel to another world. The Apollo 8 crew — Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders — had made the quarter-million-mile journey from Earth to the moon, a hazardous voyage through the deadly vacuum of space. Even though this mission would be overshadowed seven months … [Read more...] about Apollo 8 at 50: In the Beginning
Book of Genesis
Recapturing Wonder at the Creation
For the Love of All Creatures The Story of Grace in Genesis By William Greenway. Eerdmans. Pp. 178. $18 Review by Daniel Perett I cannot be the only tired congregant who has occasionally wondered what the story of the Creation in Genesis is for. Many of us are taught that the spiritual meaning of the text is obvious, and we often read through it with careless … [Read more...] about Recapturing Wonder at the Creation
What War? Which Darwinism?
Review by Daniel Muth In the pages of the popular press, fever swamps both left and right, and those high priestly temples of modern America, courts and school boards, are ever-roiled by the fatuous and enervating “war of science and religion.” Front and center of this spectacle is that reliably malleable word, Darwinism, which at one moment refers to a particular and modest … [Read more...] about What War? Which Darwinism?
Life in a Fallen World
Review by Daniel Muth If God is good, how can there be evil? To many a modern mind, it is the great atheist “gotcha!” And certain presentations of the problem accordingly slouch toward the silly — the notion that a good and omnipotent deity must adjust weather patterns and tectonic plate shifts to account for human demographics, reassign viral and pathogenic physiology to … [Read more...] about Life in a Fallen World