Just to clarify Hans, the three occasions mentioned in my piece as indicating divine intervention I have extracted from Wallace’s writings partly because I wanted to show that belief in evolution by natural selection does not necessarily imply either atheism or the impossibility of divine intervention in the evolutionary process. Wallace, as Darwin’s co-discoverer of…

One of the most important Austrian poets of the Baroque period, Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (1633–1694) composed three sets of mystical meditations on Jesus’ life, suffering, and death. In this reflection on Christ suffering on the cross, Greiffenberg identifies with her Lord’s agony, and by doing so, finds an understanding of the depth of his sacrifice. The…