Last night, I was on a Zoom call to pray for my Bible study leader’s health. He’s in the hospital on a ventilator, sick with covid. We prayed for a miracle. But I couldn’t help but think that the miracle happened a year ago when scientists used their God-given skills to create a vaccine to save us from this disease. That’s the irony of this whole thing. Many conservative Christians are quick to dismiss the advances of science, relying instead on God to save them, or they fear that science has...

Last night, I was on a Zoom call to pray for my Bible study leader’s health. He’s in the hospital on a ventilator, sick with covid. We prayed for a miracle. But I couldn’t help but think that the miracle happened a year ago when scientists used their God-given skills to create a vaccine to save us from this disease. That’s the irony of this whole thing. Many conservative Christians are quick to dismiss the advances of science, relying instead on God to save them, or they fear that science has...