Author: Resa Pearson

Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.

If you want to know who God is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what it means to be human, look at Jesus. If you want to know what love is, look at Jesus. If you want to know what grief is, look at Jesus. And go on looking until you’re not just a spectator, but you’re actually part of the drama which has him as the central character.

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order.

God to me is a mystery, but is the explanation for the miracle of existence – why there is something rather than nothing.

The heart of monotheism is that God, who is outside history, is the guarantor of meaning.

God loves an enquiring mind, a fact that has been a great encouragement to me in my study of mathematics and the history and philosophy of science.

Our own silence is necessary if God is to hear us.

Something deeper begins to attract us, and this something deeper is more spacious, alluring, and silent than the tediously dramatic opera scores of inner chatter.

Something is being born of the practice of silence, and this leads us into Silence itself.