Women Rock

I spoke last weekend at the women’s conference here at Open Range Fellowship in Shreveport. I spoke about my book – about how matter is actually energy at its core, about quantum physics, about how God’s power and presence permeate the entire universe, including the very atoms that comprise our own bodies. This all-encompassing power is available for us – as Jesus prayed – to bring heaven to earth (“On earth as it is in heaven”). Literally, we ought to be experiencing heaven on earth. If we’re not, then we are not appropriating the power that God has given to us.

The responses to the talk were very interesting. They ranged from “I didn’t understand a word of it” to “that was amazing!” When my wife, the conference organizer, first approached me about speaking at the event, I wondered aloud if women would be interested in all this quantum physics-based stuff and the way I tie it to the active power of God within our lives. She replied with “Women are people too!” We both had a laugh, because I actually was aware that women were people! But it got me to thinking…

I really appreciate the presence and role of women in the Church. Where women are not actively involved in ministry we are missing fifty percent of the heart of God. After the talk, many of the women talked to me at length about the universe, science, quantum physics, the essence of salvation through faith, the criticality of a verbal confession for salvation versus a simple intuitive acceptance of who God is, young earth creationism versus old-earth cosmology, and all kinds of other interesting things.

I’m sorry that the talk didn’t make sense to a few of the women there. I don’t expect that particular message to appeal to everyone. I will learn from it, and hopefully tailor it to address a broader audience (depending, of course, on the particular audience I’m addressing). That will be easy enough, since the book is very broad-ranging. But I was encouraged that so many women – a physics and science teacher among them – were so deeply interested in this stuff.

In my sojourns, I have found that women actually tend to think more deeply about certain things, and are often more willing to entertain new ideas. They seem to me less pragmatic and more intuitive by nature (of course I’m generalizing here), and this makes them more – to use a term I discuss at length in the book – iconoclastic. At my house lecture in Dallas a few weeks ago, women actually outnumbered men, and this was a crowd who knew beforehand what the topic was and what they were getting themselves into. I am quite fond of women in general, and one in specific. My wife has a great blend of right and left brain, but that’s only one reason I love her so much.

Anyway, just wanted to point out that women rock. Looking forward to the next speaking engagement and sussing out the differences in the responses between the men and the women.