Abstract
In this issue our lead article offers a revealing portrait of an astrophysicist/theologian's search for personal meaning, and desire to think and act out of a Christian world view. Christopher B. Kaiser's "The Creationist Tradition in the History of Science" describes the origin of this tradition in the early Christian era and the ways in which it nurtured the rise of modern science. The themes of the comprehensibility of nature, the unity of all things, and the relative autonomy of nature were critical in the development of western science. The latter theme has been distorted by modernity's distancing of God from nature. Kaiser's final theme, the ministry of healing and restoration, still offers a means for differentiating between good and bad science.