Contemplating Science and Faith

Dear God of wounded hands and searching hearts, A seventeenth-century Anabaptist farmer in the Palatinate had no telescope, no microscope, no periodic table — yet he understood something that still escapes many of us. He knew that the same God who scattered the stars across the winter sky also knelt beside the wounded stranger on the Jericho road. For him, there was no war between wonder and mercy.…