Creative Nonfiction - Fall 2017

65 ISSUE FALL 2017 $10. SCIENCE & RELIGION Exploring the Harmonies Plus: An encounter with Marilynne Robinson; fostering rad ...

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i know that exploring the harmonies between science and religion is not the kind of subject your average literary magazine might ...

Between March 31 and August 28, 2017, the following individuals and organizations contributed to the Creative Nonfiction Foundat ...

Consortium for Science Policy & Outcomes, School for the Future of Innovation in Society and the Hugh Downs School of Human ...

65 CONTENTS ISSUE From the Editor WHAT’S THE STORY? Then & Now GETTING OUTSIDE OURSELVES Sherrie Flick How looking up from t ...

Under the Umbrella KINDRED SPIRITS Spiritual writing requires exactly the sort of reflective seeking that’s a hallmark of all cr ...

ur faces are buried, and I don’t mean in the sand. They’re snuggled into our machines these days as we scroll and click and fing ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 7 Let’s look at the simple act of walk- ing as the first means of transforma- tion. It was Stanford professo ...

8 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. Of course, William incorporated the act of walking into his work. In “Sweet Was the Walk,” he evokes ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 9 it does something to human minds that nothing else can do.” People practice deep empathy in sur- prising w ...

10 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. arilynne Robinson’s ac- complishments are impressive by any standard: she has won the National Book ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 11 by the elderly preacher John Ames, and the essays “Proofs” and “Humanism,” from her 2015 collection, The ...

12 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. CNF: In “Proofs,” you write, “We have made very separate categories of science and learning on one h ...

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14 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. ENCOUNTER Continued 14 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. scientific research], is entirely as anthropogenic a ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 15 ROBINSON: Neuroscience will do what it will do, and should be will- ing to stand up to considered criti- ...

16 TRUE STORIES, WELL TOLD. hear the word, of course. I go to Mass some Sundays, listen to Al Green’s Greatest Gospel Hits, and ...

CREATIVE NONFICTION 17 home, and she showed me around— the cafeteria, the sunroom with plant stands and floral padded wicker cha ...

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