Today marks the launch of A Faith and Culture Devotional: Daily Readings in Art, Science and Life, to which I am a contributing author. My piece is a reflection on T. S. Eliot, Lady Julian of Norwich, and hope. Proceeds benefit the Veritas Forum and Compassion International. The Veritas Forum host campus lectures and forums dealing with philosophy and religion. Compassion International is a child sponsorship organization.

Here’s a sampling of the book’s contributors and their topics:

History
Walter Kaiser--Sodom: What Archeology Tells Us
Frederica Matthewes-Green--The Council of Nicaea
James Emery White--The Reniassance and Reformation
Chip MacGregor-The Middle Ages and the Second Great Schism

Philosophy
John Stott--The Mind, Spirit and Power
Nancy Pearcey--The Fact/Value Divide
Lee Strobel (Peter Kreeft)--Theodicy
JP Moreland--The Modern University
Phillip Johnson--The Ultimate Premise
Os Guinness--The Sleep of Death

Bible and Theology
Sarah Sumner--General Revelation
Darrell Bock--The Secret Gospels
RC Sproul--The Fairness and Mercy of God
Randy Alcorn--Heaven: Headed Home
Scot McKnight--the Small and Big Gospel
Darrell Bock--The Secret Gospels

Science
Francis Collins--God and the Human Genome
Hugh Ross--The Big Bang and the Bible
Ray Bohlin--DNA

Literature
Gene Veith--Paradise Lost: Milton’s Epic of Cosmic Betrayal
Philip Yancey--Leo Tolstoy
Bill Edgar--Augustine's City of God
James Scott Bell--Moby Dick: Not Mere Fiction
Joy Jordan Lake--Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Sandra Glahn--TS Eliot and Julian of Norwich

Contemporary Culture
Bruce Herman--Sex, Intimacy and Worship
Archibald D. Hart--The Gospel of Self-Esteem
Mark Joseph--U2
Stephanie Powers--AIDS
Vera Shaw--Tending the Garden Planet
Jody Hassett Sanchez--Today’s Slavery

Art
Michael Card/Francis Schaeffer--Art: A Response to Beauty
Catherin Claire--Vincent Van Gogh and Seeing
Francis Schaeffer--Michaelangelo
Chuck Colson--Real Art Beyond Ground Zero

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