Archive for March, 2010
An Outside Perspective
I grew up in an extremely conservative, strange, and cult-like church. It took me a long time to figure out that there wasn’t something wrong with me, that the problem was the church. When I was in elementary school, the music minister’s wife, Patty Jo, disappeared. We learned years later that her husband had killed […]
The Catch
Yesterday I was supposed to go to a meeting about my research and take an exam. This weekend I had two migraines, but they weren’t very bad, so I pushed through them to prepare. Working through those migraines is likely why I got the kind of migraine on Monday that made it impossible for me […]
Religious truth doesn’t describe the world
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Science demands the fundamental belief that there is a rational explanation for everything; it also requires an imagination and courage which are not dissimilar to religious creativity. Like the prophet or the mystic, the scientist also forces himself to confront the […]