Blaise Pascal and the Scrap of Paper Sewn Into His Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old,...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.

On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old, restless, and haunted by a growing emptiness that no equation could solve. Sometime between 10:30 in the evening and half past midnight, something happened that he could barely put into words. Pascal encountered the living God.…