This Fantasy Novelist Showed Me What It Means to Fear God

How Lois McMaster Bujold’s Hugo Award–winning stories depict reverence in the face of divine mystery.
The fear of the Lord,” says Proverbs 1:7, “is the beginning of knowledge.” Indeed, God’s scriptural appearances are often terrifying. Moses sees only God’s cloaked back and is nearly undone by the sight (Ex. 34:4–8). Isaiah sees God’s throne room, complete with disturbingly inhuman angelic creatures, and is devastated by the gap between his i