Bear Skin #129
What Books Do for the Human Spirit
A theme of Bear Skin is the transformative power of art, narrative, story, poetry and words. A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another. ~ Rebecca Solnit. It seems that all throughout history, writers, thinkers, poets and philosophers have marveled at the power and magic of books and stories. But […]
Science-fiction and permission to wonder.
This week the Wall Street Journal and The Australian both ran an interesting article on the scientific evidence for the existence of a creator. Written by Eric Metaxas, biographer and journalist, the article raises the question of God using scientific arguments. Metaxas cites the 1966 Time magazine headline, “Is God Dead?”, in which the astronomer […]