The following is an excerpt from from Why Science and Faith Need Each Other by Elaine Howard Ecklund. The author is a sociologist at Rice University, with a focus on religion and public life. This passage can be found in Chapter 4, “Curiosity.” You remember some conversations for the rest of your life. When I […]
A Citizenship of Nothing but Belief
Once, in college, I attended an inter-denominational Christian event. Students were asked to introduce themselves and the church tradition they represented. One girl laughed and said, “I’m a Christian,” and left it at that. (She was probably a 4.) This left an impression on me, as parsing the nuances between traditions had become something of […]
When a Fish Dies at the Children’s Hospital and Other Thoughts on Prayer
Or, What a Dying Fish Reminded Me about God
Amateurs in a Time of Crisis
Reflections on My Conversation with Middle-Aged Ministers at a Hotel Bar
