Over the years, I’ve gotten e-mails from a number of people asking me if planets, stars or constellations are mentioned in the Bible. Of course they are!

There are computer programs you can get that contain the whole text of the Bible and allow you to do global searches on words or phrases. When I just looked up “stars” I came across a number of instances. (And, in the process, I missed one of the most famous ones: the opening from Psalm 19, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.”)

But of course, that’s just gathering data. As a scientist, what I do instinctively is to look the data over and try to find trends. And over the next few days I want to share some of these insights here. It’s not just that stars are mentioned in passing in the Bible; what is fascinating to me is how they are used...

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1. Undergroundpewster wrote: That helps explain Eucharistic Prayer C. October 27, 2:00 pm | [comment link]

2. Rich Gabrielson wrote: This series will be worth following.  Br. Guy comes to Cornell twice a year and his talks to the Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable are top notch.  His most recent one was two weeks ago and the audio should show up here fairly soon, barring technical difficulties. October 29, 5:07 pm | [comment link]

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