I live in one of the least religious cities in America, Portland, Oregon. We are progressive freethinkers who are generally a “spiritual but not religious” people. Yet this religiously independent attitude, one that I am guilty of as well, keeps us spiritually stunted. Karen Armstrong, one of our great contemporary religious scholars, has convinced me…
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Religious scholar and author Karen Armstrong, gives me hope for a modern religious renaissance. She describes in her book, The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts how we have lost touch with the brain’s right hemisphere, which is the side of the brain that thinks in myth, metaphors, and symbols. The explosion of technology…
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I found myself startled in the 20th chapter, of Yuval Noah Harari’s book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. The chapter was titled “Meaning”, and in it, Harari explains the human tendency to create meaning through stories and how this kind of thinking is flawed. He begins with the fact that we are story-telling animals…
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