Weird Coincidences, Supernatural Events, Funny Feelings - Is That You God? A message about experiencing unusual things, and how to interpret them.

Desires, Beliefs, and How We Know Truth: Why Do We Sometimes Not Desire Jesus? A presentation about how human desire for beauty, goodness, and truth is suggestive but needs help, and how belief systems present how we might know them.

The Trinity: Can Other Gods Be Personally Known? observes that Jewish monotheism allowed for at least a binitarian God who was both transcendent and immanent at the same time

C.S. Lewis, "The Weight of Glory," from his book The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, especially part one, reasoning from good and evil, and our experience of ourselves

Eugene Wigner, The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences. UPenn, 1960. See also David Gelernter. Stephen C. Meyer, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, and Peter Robinson, Mathematical Challenges to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. Discovery, Jul 24, 2019. See also Jennifer Kabbany, Famed Yale Computer Science Professor Quits Believing Darwin’s Theories. The College Fix, Jul 30, 2019. Re: David Gelernter

Michael Polanyi, Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. University of Chicago Press | Amazon page, Aug 1974. See also a summary of his Critical Realist Epistemology.

T.F. Torrance, The Grammar and Ground of Theology. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1981. An audio recording of lectures given at Fuller Seminary, excellent resource on the interaction between scientific and theological pursuits

T.F. Torrance, The Grammar and Ground of Theology lecture 1. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1981. An audio recording. Torrance discusses three changes in cosmological knowledge that affected science, epistemology, and theology. He discusses the dualist to unitary view, and the shift from a Newtonian closed system to dynamic-relational-contingent system.

T.F. Torrance, The Grammar and Ground of Theology lecture 2. Fuller Theological Seminary, 1981. An audio recording. The change from the priority of reason over belief, back to the priority of belief over reason

Francis Collins, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Free Press | Amazon page, Jul 2007 and video, Dec 21, 2010.

David Bentley Hart, Mysteries of Consciousness. First Things, Aug 20, 2010.

Alister McGrath, Surprised by Meaning: Science, Faith, and How We Make Sense of Things. Westminster John Knox Press | Amazon page, Feb 2011.

Frank Wilczek, Why Is the World So Beautiful? On Being, Apr 28, 2016.

Robert Epstein, The Empty Brain. Aeon, May 18, 2016. The brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories; it is not a computer; encounters are irreducibly personal

Jon Miltimore, World-Famous Scientist: God Created the Universe. Intellectual Takeout, Jun 6, 2016. Physicist Michio Kaku:  “I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”

N.T. Wright, If Creation is Through Christ, Evolution is What You'd Expect. BioLogos, Apr 24, 2017. Short, excellent 4 minute reflection on Colossians 1 and Genesis 1.

Carol Kuruvilla, Stephen Colbert On How He Returned To Catholicism After Being An Atheist. Huffington Post, Nov 16, 2018. On the mystery of gratitude

Lee Billings, Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says. Scientific American, Mar 20, 2019. “In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief”

Anderson Cooper, Full Interview of Stephen Colbert. CNN, Aug 14, 2019. From 20 min mark, explores grief, loss, gratitude, and God’s love.

Mari Joerstad, The Hebrew Bible and Environmental Ethics. Cambridge University Press | Amazon page, Sep 2021. This is a unique study of the way Scripture personalizes the non-human creation such as land, trees, rivers and waters, etc. Joerstad makes excellent observations and draws out very helpful ethical implications as to God’s love for the creation into which humans are called to participate.

Ergun Lafli, Nature in the Byzantine Art of Anatolia. A public lecture on September 5, 2021 on Heybeliada, Istanbul, Turkey. Academia, Sep 5, 2021.

Harini Bhat, Shocking Mysteries That Remain Unsolved. Today I Learned Science, Feb 9, 2023. Remarkably, the eel! It’s reproduction and migratory patterns.

Stephen Freeman, When Miracles Ceased. Glory to God for All Things | Ancient Faith, May 10, 2023.

David Brooks, The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be. New York Times, Dec 19, 2024. On epiphanies, including epiphanies in nature, that led to the pursuit of God, on desire and longing, and the view of humans as co-creators with God. “I experienced an acceleration of those moments. This time they were not mere spooky experiences, but illuminations — events that tell us about the meaning of life and change the way we see the world…. When religion is seen as belief, then the believer lives on a continuum between belief and doubt. But when religion is seen as a longing, then the believer lives on the continuum between intensity and apathy… I’ve heard Christians say that our job is to take our hands off the wheel and let God drive. Or as John Calvin put it, “The only haven of safety is to have no other will, no other wisdom, than to follow the Lord wherever he leads.” In the face of that, I find the Jewish concept of “co-creation” is stubbornly baked into my mind. It is our human will, energy and creativity, working within God’s, that matter.”

Paul Kingsnorth, Humanity and Nature in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Temenos Academy, Apr 4, 2025. A 52 minute video, lecture exploring the relationship between Christian faith and ecology. Kingsnorth gives a very touching and informed presentation of the original garden.

Andrew Davison, Is Anything Supernatural? Plough, Sep 19, 2025. What earthworms, humans, and angels have in common.

“The great provocateur against this position was the French Jesuit Henri de Lubac (who deserves to be remembered, among other things, for his part in heroic resistance to the Third Reich during World War II). He didn’t think that our desire for the infinite God could be fulfilled through even a perfect finite attempt to know God (even assuming such a perfect knowledge were attainable), using what is available to us in worldly terms. He did not think that it would be enough for us simply to know that there is a God, or to reach some natural conclusions about what God is like. No: we want to know God as God. De Lubac’s claim can be set out using a familiar line from Saint Augustine of Hippo: Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless until they find rest in Thee. This Augustinian insight complicates the relationship between the natural and the supernatural. If our nature is not satisfied by anything less than God, there must be a natural desire for the supernatural.”

Deep Space Revealed, Oort Cloud The Invisible Ice Wall Guarding Our Solar System. Deep Space Revealed | Facebook, Feb 5, 2026. A 25 minute video. The statistical anomaly indicates that the Oort Cloud acts like an active filter, protecting our solar system. Objects from outside the solar system are being captured, deflected, or destroyed at rates that do not match natural probability.

Stephen Freeman, St. Patrick’s Protection Against Secularism. Glory to God for All Things, Mar 4, 2026.

“The nature of secularism is the notion that anything at all exists apart from God – that is – that it has an independent existence. This is the very heart of modernity’s self-understanding: the world and all that is in it is self-existing and does not require God for its existence or well-being. This is a radical notion and is inherently atheistic. That someone might believe in God is not necessarily forbidden, but such a belief is purely a matter of individual preference and has nothing to do with the world as it actually is.

Some describe modern secularism as a “dis-enchantment” of the world – a denial that the world has anything special or sacramental about it. A thing is a thing is a thing. Of course, a corollary to this is the notion that human beings are just things among other things. That those who are infected with a secularist world-view (and there are many – perhaps a majority) too easily find themselves battling emptiness and depression. Their lives have little wonder, while beauty is nothing more than a concept, as non-existent as God.”

These are the images used in artistic physical displays. They are survey questions and conversation starters that are topically and thematically organized. They demonstrate how Jesus is relevant to each topic or theme. You can also just view the images on your device. If you would like, see all our Conversation Stations; below are the ones that relate to the topic of the historical Jesus.

What Story Do You Live In? (and associated message)

Is Religion Just a Cultural Thing? (and instructions)

Who Do You Think Wrote This? (and instructions)

What Can We Do About Evil? (and instructions and conversation tree)

What Can We Do About Evil? (brochure version)

Find Your Heart's Desire? (and instructions and theology of desire)