Something There Is: Seeking a Rational Faith for Our Children

by David Sayre

This autobiographical odyssey seeks in places of great striving a "rational faith"--one true to both our highest religious ideas and our advancing sciences. As founder of both charitable and technical businesses, the author leads us to places of the greatest despair and the greatest power on earth. There we meet amazing examples of good and evil, interwoven with contemporary scientists' own searches for meaning, explaining faith and love, truth and life, time and order and beauty. The things we hold sacred are real, after all. For readers unfulfilled by either conventional religions or scientific materialism; parents, teachers, and leaders struggling to reconcile peace with power and beauty with truth.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

David Sayre’s writing grows out of two uncommon but parallel careers. Leading advances in the sciences of communication and energy, he has ventured with rare insight into the back wards of violent and despairing institutions and neighborhoods. Sayre’s writing explores the evolution of our species in our “places of great striving.” Writing for adults and for children, his books explore the themes of entropy, love and loss, beauty and truth. Sayre gives readers much to savor, as they journey toward Home.