David writes from the inside of two awed responses: the universe is enormous, and the Maker pays attention to me. Both halves are essential. A small God who pays attention is sentimental. A great God who does not pay attention is terrifying. Psalm 8 holds both at once and discovers that the holding itself is the gospel.

From the writers we read together

David Berlinski

mathematician and skeptic of materialism, author of The Devil's Delusion

Berlinski is not a Christian apologist; he is a mathematician unimpressed with materialism's bluster. His argument is that the modern story — the universe accidentally bubbled itself into being and then accidentally produced minds capable of asking why — is not a result, but a hope dressed as a result.

Psalm 8 is what an honest person says after looking up at the sky. The fact that we ask the question "what is man" is itself the most interesting datum in the universe. Stars do not wonder. We do. And the one who set the stars in place is the one who put the wonder in us — and remembers each wonderer by name.