Faith in Orbit: A Spaced Odyssey

by Mary Meinking, Doug Hall, Ed Koehler

Five of IVP's bestselling cartoonists join forces to boldly go where church humor has never gone before, speculating hilariously on what shapes faith will take in an age of space travel and colonization.

1 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1995

Reviews

[Panda Incognito · Rating 4 out of 5]

This comic book was published in 1995, and it features work from multiple Christian cartoonists, who were envisioning what church life might be like in the future. Some of the comics are silly and imaginative, involving things like space travel and cloning, while others feature cultural and technology-related predictions.

The cartoonists were dead on about the dynamics of livestreamed worship, and one of these comics is basically an illustration of Zoom church during the pandemic. However, I'm not sure why one of the cartoonists thought that someone speaking in tongues online in 2025 would need to use a floppy disc for translation to keep this biblical.

Also! One comic features someone singing hymns in the shower for a broadcast, and the caption says, "May 2039: With 6,500 TV channels available, nearly everyone can do religious programming." Wow. Minus the part about TV, that sure rings true.

This is available to read on Open Library: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18260...