My Spiritual Autobiography
The eye of God. An image of a black hole , using Event Horizon Telescope observations of the center of the galaxy M87. I believe in the obvious, particularly in what I can observe. I have an evidence-based view of the world and the cosmos. I feel fortunate that I never was committed to the ideals developed by, as written by Sam Harris , “sand-strewn men… who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology." I was baptized in the Moravian Church . I have no memory of this, but I do have a baptismal certificate. The church was in Ohio, near the home of my maternal grandparents. Th e Moravian Church stressed humility, discipline, peacefulness, and simplicity in worship and lifestyle, and I assume my mother shared these ideals at one time. Its “founder,” John Hus, was burned at the stake as heretic in 1415 because of his insistence that Scripture a...