Author: Nick Hawkes

There is something awfully final about death.  After the miracle of birth, death seems a bit of an anticlimax.   There is no fanfare, just the slow turning off of the switch for many of […]

You are a leftover.   And, evidently, our world is made of leftovers.   Even more astounding: our universe is made of leftovers. For every one billion particles of anti-matter in the early universe, there […]

Interesting things happen in space. They’ve grown a rose in space to see if zero gravity would affect its smell.   It does, evidently. And there’s a star, a white dwarf which scientists have […]

There is a sense within many people that we were created for something more than this life.   We feel we have loved too much and meant too much for us to have no […]

The pop/folk legend, Bob Dylan, spoke of a time when he crashed his 500cc Triumph motorcycle in 1966.   He said that the accident caused him to withdraw from public life for a while… […]

Christianity is not a culturally derived religious philosophy that gradually evolved over the years.   Christianity is based on concrete historical events.   It is based on the historical reality of Jesus’ life, death and […]