About

Hello.

Thank you for visiting. I’m Jessica.

Faith? Hope? What do you believe and hope in? I’ve believed and hoped in a lot of things over the years. Many of them have let me down or just faded. Some things I want to believe and hope in are stubbornly elusive to my weak trusting ability. So I read and think and read and analyse and try to understand. Though logical reason and rational thought can’t deliver us fully into faith or hope, they can lead us to the door. If we have some comprehension and justification for why we believe or hope in something then we are more likely to hold onto that belief and hope. And without hope, life is bleak.

As part of this wrestling, over-thinking and running from nihilism, words started to flow from my head to the page. Writing forces you to clarify what you think and why you think it. Writing forces you to pay close attention to what you read.

I write at the intersection of science and Christian faith. I write at the limits of what we can and cannot know and thus render the boundary less of a trip hazard for faith and hope. For it is so often at the paradoxical boundary—divine sovereignty versus human responsibility, God created everything but is not the author of evil—that we err, either assuming more than we can know and creating false dichotomies that torment the analytically minded or concluding we can know nothing. I am not a professional philosopher or theologian. A physicist and meteorologist by training (I write about weather and Antarctica elsewhere), the writings here are just me seeking understanding to bolster Christian faith and hope.

I offer you my words in case they help you navigate the storms of confusion, pain and pointlessness that can plague our souls.

~Jessica