In this episode of Strange Church History, we share a conference talk from C. R. Wiley on re-enchanting the cosmos. With his characteristic clarity and good sense, Wiley turns our attention to the architecture of creation itself—its hierarchy, order, purpose, and harmony. He reminds us that before the modern world thinned reality to particles and probabilities, Christians understood the cosmos as a house built by God, a place alive with meaning and structured for wisdom.

This talk presses against the disenchanted assumptions of our age and calls us to recover a world thick with significance. Wiley argues that forgetting the cosmos is forgetting our place within it. He draws together Scripture, the Christian tradition, and the deep patterns of life to show that the universe is not a cold expanse but an ordered home in which God’s people are meant to dwell, act, and take dominion.

Join us as Strange Church History revisits this compelling and timely message delivered at the Re-enchanting the Church conference in Logan, West Virginia—a reminder that the world is far larger, stranger, and more glorious than we have been taught to imagine.