I\u2019m a catholic convert (from Greek Orthodoxy, granted, but I was actually raised in the Anglican church) with a long-time atheist friend, who suggested that I write a story about a priest in space, which I did. It\u2019s a somewhat older-style science fiction, where the future is more or less an analog for the past. A six month journey to a new planet in one sense might as well have been a several month journey from europe to the americas in the 1700s, and so while the technology is futuristic, the story is about the people. I tried, at least, to take advantage of the futuristic setting to focus the story on what is eternally human.<\/p>\n
You might find it interesting because I posit that the general culture will have become explicitly pagan, though in a more genuine sense and not merely in rebelling against one\u2019s parents. Part of why I think you might find this is interesting is that one of the things you\u2019ve written which has especially struck me was a paraphrase you made of Chesterton: that the last thing we know for certain about the ancient pagans is that they sought baptism.<\/p>\n