To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here As a naturalist, Charles Darwin wasn’t much of a “bird guy.” His real fascination was with barnacles. He spent eight years of his life, in fact, painstakingly dissecting smelly samples from all over the world, piling up storage crates in his London study in the pre-refrigeration era. His hope was to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn. It should have been an open-and-shut case. Did a 24-year-old phys ed teacher named John T. Scopes teach evolution… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It seems hard to believe, but just 200 years ago every respectable scientist believed that spoiled meat, all by itself, could generate maggots. The idea that non-living substances automatically morph into living creatures is known as “spontaneous generation.” Dust generates fleas. Dead cows produce wasps. Ocean sand yields barnacles. And a… Read more »
