faith can feel like science fiction
How might your faith invite you into world building today in innovative and fantastical ways?
Hebrews 11:1
Faith is the reality of all that is hoped for; faith is the proof of all that is unseen.
In one of my favorite books, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, the protagonist, Lauren Olamina, is surviving a post-apocalyptic world and develops a faith community called Earthseed. She believes that the survival of humanity depends on sending humans to other planets to rebuild there.
Sometimes faith can feel like science fiction.
It is rooted in a dreaming spirit that imagines new and needed worlds. It speaks to us about the way things are and the way they could be. It invites us to see that which can’t be seen. It takes rules and breaks them, in favor of seeking the truth.
The writer of Hebrews names the ways in which heroes of the faith believed so deeply in their visions of liberation, salvation, and the new world being born. Their faith opened up the kind of actions that might allow those new worlds to become reality.
How might your faith invite you into world building today in innovative and fantastical ways?
—Candace Woods