About the Book

In 7th grade, my best friend introduced me to X-Men comics during breaks in self-paced algebra at our small Christian school. Superheroes, science and scripture have been mingled in my mind ever since. I hope by explaining the connections I see, I can help you understand something new about one or more of those topics.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 0: The Power of Babelfish — The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Arrival introduce us to the challenges of communication, even and especially when everyone thinks they speak the same language.
• Chapter 1: This Chapter Has No Title — Professor Henry Jones, Jr. teaches us a little something about paradoxes as we dig into questions of faith.
• Chapter 2: The Hound of Heaven across the Multiverse — We get lost with Mark Watney of The Martian and find out if the math of optimization can save us.
• Chapter 3: Sovereignty in a Time of Spanners — Scottish werewolf Rahne Sinclair shows us grace by helping us understand chaos theory.
• Chapter 4: The Kamala Khan Conundrum — Ms. Marvel illustrates the challenges of dual identities, so we turn to quantum physics to understand how Jesus overcomes them.
• Chapter 5: A Conspiracy of Chronometers — Ender Wiggins shows us how to properly orient ourselves even in the face of special relativity; we can use Jesus to define our coordinate system.
• Chapter 6: The Entropic Principle — The Joker and Two-Face represent different forms of entropy, which can tell us something about dying to live as Jesus did.
• Chapter 7: The Genome Made Flesh — We join the clone club of Orphan Black to understand how the diversity of our body comes from a single cell and the diversity of the church comes from a single Word.
• Chapter 8: Spleens, Strains, and Autoimmunity — The Justice League know a thing or two about conflict from without and within; they also know how to heal wounds and find the quiet good among the noisy evil.
• Chapter 9: The Redeemable Ant-Man — Ant-Man and the Avengers enjoy membership in something greater than the sum of its parts, a privilege that should also come with belonging to the church.
• Chapter 10: Squirrel, Interrupted — Computer science student and squirrel-themed superhero Doreen Green loves a good plan, like the one God has for his people.
• Chapter 11: BASIC Actions Simulate Infinite Complexity — We're going to learn (about) jiu-jitsu in order to see how simple ideas from the Bible still apply to the complex modern world.
• Chapter 12: Mutatis Mutandis — The X-Men teach us how to learn, so our faith can continue to evolve into the future.