What can we learn about God by watching an eclipse?
God could have made the universe in lots of different ways. God chose to make a rational universe so that we could predict these eclipses with enormous precision, and at the same time beautiful, so it is not only that the eclipse occurs just when it is supposed to, but that, along with the delight that our calculations are right, there is the delight at seeing the beauty that comes, that we can experience, while we are underneath this eclipse. The great thing about an eclipse is that anybody can see it you. You don’t need a telescope, you don’t need an education, you don’t need to be told what it is you are looking at. Anyone who experiences it, anyone who is there under the shadow of the moon will experience the eclipse. From that, we are all under the same sky. We are all experiencing the same thing, whether we are left or right, or how we voted, or what kind of music we listen to. That sense of common joy is something that can both pull us together and also encourage us to then want to learn more. It is a great common experience that nobody pays for, and nobody can own.