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Writing about Catholic scientists and ideas that feed my own Catholic fiction

Author: catholicfictioncatholicscience

What is sight?

April 11, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I remember my mother telling me that objects don’t really have color. The blue I see on a street sign is really just light bouncing off the sign and entering my eyes. My brain interprets those particular rays as blue because of the way they bounce. The blue is in my eyes not on the [...]

Posted in science and engineering, seeing, vision

Sourtough sourdough plus vocabulary…

April 8, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I started making sourdough bread five years ago when yeast wasn’t readily available in grocery stores (during the pandemic). At that time I learned to make a basic loaf and somehow made it work in ways that I can’t repeat now. I had a rhythm going that kept the starter alive, and could make some [...]

Posted in cooking, flour, speciality, recipe bread, wheat

Writer is blocked

April 4, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Have a picture today. O Sek Bang, Korean artist. From the Dayton library collection/exhibit.

Posted in Uncategorized

What is the point of Science???

April 1, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

Years ago our local public high school had a teacher who regularly told students that it was impossible for Christians to be scientists. Of course, the simplest way to show what nonsense that teacher was spouting was simply to point out all the scientists who had been serious Christians. I thought I would make a [...]

Posted in books, catholic scientists, galileo

Updates…

March 28, 2025 catholicfictioncatholicscienceLeave a comment

I've read bits and pieces of lots of books over the past month. I'm searching for the ways that other writers have solved problems like Point of View in a story, multiple characters in a scene (something I find terribly difficult), and how to provide necessary information to understand a story without either placing a [...]

Posted in current book progress, vestments, writing lesson

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