Reality Is Larger Than It Appears
Why our choices matter more than we often realise
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Sometimes I wonder whether we have become so skilled at explaining the world that we have unwittingly reduced it.
We know more than any generation before us. We can trace the age of distant stars, map the human genome, and communicate with people on the other side of the world almost instantly. We understand things about biology, physics, and psychology that would have seemed extraordinary to our ancestors.
It really is an astonishing time to be alive.
And yet, for all that knowledge, our picture of reality may have become narrower rather than broader.
We tend to assume that what is real is what can be measured. If something can be weighed, photographed, tested, or scanned, it belongs comfortably within our understanding of the world. If it cannot, we often become hesitant to speak about it at all.
That caution has done us a great deal of good. It has helped us discard superstition and understand the physical world with remarkable clarity.
But when I read the New Testament, I find myself stepping into a world that feels larger than the one many of us inhabit today.
