Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Chapter 10, “Fecundity” Annie Dillard died on Tuesday, September 15.  She was 81. Years ago, when I was a student, I read Dillard’s Pulitzer Prize-winning ...

Scientists have debated the definition of life for decades, but they still lack a consensus on the answer. Experts believe that "edge cases" make life difficult to define and blur boundaries across ...

Have you ever wondered if there was more to “life” than what you were experiencing? Have you ever felt like “bad” things just happened to you; challenging situations that were out of your control?

The end of the world is when we die but the end of the world is not the end of us. John 18:37-38: “So Pilate said to him, ‘Then you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say I am a king. For this I was ...

From the moment we begin to question the world around us, one of the most profound and often unsettling questions we face is: What is the meaning of life? For some, this question leads to despair, as ...

What are the physics of life? That is more than just a philosophical question—it has practical implications for our search for life elsewhere in the galaxy. We know what Earth life looks like, on a ...

To successfully look for life beyond our own solar system, astrobiologists desperately need a viable definition of life. Even after a century or so of debate, they lack a viable universal definition ...

Arthur Brooks’s new book is enjoyable, smart, and often wise, but a search for true meaning must bring us to Christ. Sometimes this looks like basic fidelity to Scripture, which depicts Christ as the ...

What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there are those who would try to "constrain" it, at least in terms of physics. A ...

Presaging Frankl’s emphasis on the congenital need for some sense of meaning and purpose in life, Carl Jung states, “I have observed that a life directed to an aim is in general better, richer, and ...

“What is the meaning of life?” is simultaneously one of the oldest questions in philosophy and a relatively new concept: While the quest for purpose stretches back farther than the ancient Greek ...

Back in my Episcopalian days in the Deep South, I remember hearing a fascinating conversation between a mother and son on their arrival at church. The son was asking his mother about why they came.