Stars of heaven

The total number of stars is estimated to be greater than 100 sextillion (10^23), or more than ten trillion stars per person. On the face of it we are insignificant in the context of the universe.

And yet despite half a century of searching there is no scientific evidence to suggest that life is present anywhere in the universe except here in our solar system.  At the end of his recent book “The Eerie Silence" noted cosmologist Paul Davies, an enthusiast for finding extraterrestrial life, says that his scientific opinion weighing up all the factors is that “we are probably the only intelligent beings in the observable universe, and I would not be very surprised if the solar system contains the only life in the observable universe."

Rather than being an insignificant part of creation we are perhaps the rarest and most precious component of it.

LCMS theological discussions with the ACNA

The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod has just released a report on theological discussions with the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA).

Another example of common ground across conservative denominations in the context of an increasingly secular society.