David Christopher

Like so many people who left the faiths of their youth, I still wanted to believe, yearned to believe in something. But just as I found the interpretation of the stories of traditional religions deeply unsatisfying, the cold, factual stories of modern science also failed to speak to my spirit. Like the Seeker, I threw out the story of the scriptures that I was given, but couldn’t reconcile with the “Big Dumb Rock” theory of creation that emerged out of the mechanistic worldview of the European Enlightenment. More important, since I found myself in a world that seemed bent on economic and ecological self-destruction, I wanted a new spiritual direction beyond the platitudes of the self-help era.

So I wrote a book to eplain the Universe to myself, and I ended up writing a book that translates the cold scientific facts of the Universe into a soulful story of creation that is reminiscent of the style of story I grew up with that honors and explores the mysteries of the Universe—but also confronts the challenges humanity faces.

The Holy Universe came to me as a fictional dialogue between a Seeker and his Sage, as they go through the unfolding of the Universe—from the Beginning of All Beginnings, to the creation of Earth and the emergence of human beings, all the way to our present-day crises, spurring humanity toward what the Sage calls the “Great Transformation”—the enormous global changes we are now facing as a species.