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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 […]

Instead

I’d like to stay home this morning with my coffee and a novel, or maybe finish up some blog posts I’ve started, but not finished, in the last few weeks.  But you’ll have to wait to hear what I think about The Wild Trees, to analyze February’s migraine data, and to find out what music […]

Just a shoe

I have a pretty serious love of yellow shoes, but I only own one pair.  They aren’t nearly as lovely as these: