Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of

Unchanging Truth, the Colson Center and John Stone Street.

To be Christian, especially in this confusing cultural moment, requires that we Stewart

and intentionally cultivate our minds in the love of God.

An exemplary model of someone who took that calling seriously is James Clerk Maxwell.

Now, most people could only name two physicists, if any at all, Albert Einstein and Isaac

Dutin.

However, we should all know James Clerk Maxwell.

His work was foundational for so many of the most important discovery within 20th century

physics.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1831, Maxwell entered the University of Edinburgh at age

16.

When he didn't find his studies all that demanding, he dedicated his spare time to self-constructed

chemical electric and magnetic devices, especially polarized prisms and gelatin, this

work led to two scientific papers that he completed at age 18.

In 1850, Maxwell then went to Cambridge, while there he underwent an evangelical conversion.

He remained an evangelical perspiterian for the rest of his life, eventually becoming

an elder in the Church of Scotland.

He graduated from Trinity College in 1854 as one of the top two mathematicians.

And though he was made a fellow of Trinity in 1855, he instead accepted a professorship

at Marysha College in Aberdeen.

While there he won the Adams Prize from King's College, Cambridge, for demonstrating that

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