Beliefs Can Coexist: I’m a Science Journalist and a Christian

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Knowledge is power, but for me, it doesn’t replace faith — it furthers it.

One of my first courses in graduate school was a “readings in literary science writing” elective. While introducing herself on the first night of class, the instructor — an older woman who had published a book on medical ethics —…