Darwin’s Finches

Darwin’s Finches

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereAs 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...
The Scopes Trial

The Scopes Trial

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...
In the Beginning

In the Beginning

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIt 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...