The Jesuit's Relationship With God

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It's like Judeo-Christian God. But not just like regular Jewish God or like Protestant God. He is for most of this book, he's in like his 30s, 40s. His relationship with God initially is sort of agnostic almost. And so he suggests first kind of ingest that, yeah, it must be God's will and that he wants them all to go to this planet on a mission.

We're back to sci-fi this week, but we take a break from the politics-heavy universe of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. Mary Doria Russell's The Sparrow instead uses science fiction to discuss anthropology, colonialism, and theology. There's some genuinely funny and warm stuff in this book, but there's a shadow hanging over the proceedings from the outset: eight people set out to explore the first known alien planet inhabited by sentient life, but only one comes back, and he's much worse for the wear.

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