201 BILLION GALAXIES: And Other Religious Discoveries

This is a book of true stories and insights that address religious beliefs—
where they come from and where they might be going. It confronts
the diffi culties between age-old human faiths and modern scientific
discoveries, discussing the impacts and discontinuities that result.
Violence, permission, sex, the afterlife are all here, but not in the usual
way.

Who will actually be on the Starship Enterprise? How many sentient
beings are there in the universe? What is a soul, actually? What does
“holy” really mean? These are a few of the issues that are dealt with
through the stories. Of course a very big question, as indicated by the
title of the book, is exactly where do we and our religions fit in a universe
of a billion trillion stars and an unimaginable number of life-sustaining
planets?