The Patient Body: How Ethics Saved the Life of Medicine
“The Patient Body” is a monthly column by Ann Neumann about issues at the intersection of religion and medicine. Continue Reading →
Tag: narrative
Is the Left Behind?
Diane Winston tells us what’s missing from “Whatever Happened to the American Left?,” an opinion piece by Michael Kazin, the editor of Dissent Magazine, which appeared in Sunday’s New York Times. (I pointed a finger at it on Sunday.) Winston explains that Kazin neglects three important issues in his diagnosis of the invisible, hamstrung Left: the conservative movement didn’t start in the 1970s; the American Left is not MIA, just underreported; and that he better not leave religion out of the conversation or he’s missing an essential part of the political story. Continue Reading →
Narrative Truth
From Chris Dierkes at Beams and Struts:
“Adam Gopnik writes: As the Bacchae knew, we always tear our Gods to bits, and eat the bits we like. Still, a real, unchangeable difference does exist between what might be called storytelling truths and statement-making truths—between what makes credible, if sweeping, sense in a story and what’s required for a close-knit metaphysical argument. Certain kinds of truths are convincing only in a narrative.” Continue Reading →