I first heard about this book through Books & Culture, and having finished it just now, I would suggest everyone read it–no matter what you believe. Reason #1: The book is 67 pages. You can read it in a jiffy. Reason #2: The two debaters on either end of the spectrum (religion vs. atheism) go […]
The Creation Order
For some of you, this post will be blasphemy, so read no further. For others of you, it might be laughable. But for right now, if you can suspend judgment for a few moments, you might crack open your mind just slightly, to allow your thinking neurons to fire in different ways. [Remember, doubt is […]
The Glory of True Love
When I was a girl, the life I wanted could only be found in fairy tales. The knight in shining armor on his white majestic horse was going to whisk me away to some ethereal splendid castle somewhere. There we’d dine on grapes and pastries and succulent meats and stuff ourselves until we could eat […]
Should Eve Have Been Steve?
So. It’s sometime in September of last year, and my husband Dan is reading Eve for the first time while we’re in the Ukraine. Every once in a while, he glances up from reading and makes a statement or asks a question, and I grab my notebook and jot them down. Some of the questions […]
Cain and Abel
Dan and I saw this massive painting–the kind you have to stand yards away from to take it all in–at the Musée d’Orsay in 2007. I had finished Eve by that time, so I was interested in the cavemen-like representation of the characters, more along the lines of what you would expect the first people […]