Issue #65, Science & Religion
Fall 2017
Creative Nonfiction #65 is dedicated to discovering unexplored harmonies between science and religion. Whether considering the spiritual potential of Google search, talking to high school biology teachers in central Pennsylvania, studying the Mormon cosmos, or forging a career path that passes through both the seminary and the science lab, the writers in this issue seek a nuanced view of the world that demands both wisdom and wonder.
Plus, an encounter with Marilynne Robinson; the challenges of writing about religious experience without using the word God; a survey of spiritual writing, from St. Augustine to St. Joan (Didion); tiny truths; and more.
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"What's the Story" by Lee Gutkind
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"Contagious Empathy" by Sherrie Flick
How looking up from the screen and going for a walk may save us all -
"Travels in the Great American Divide" by Dinty W. Moore
Searching for a new narrative on a road trip through small towns in WV, PA, and central OH (republished on Lit Hub)
Table of Contents
From the Editor Lee Gutkind ... read more
Contagious Empathy Sherrie Flick
Encounter: This Essentially Meaningless Conflict Lee Gutkind & Dan Sarewitz
Absolute Mystery Sonja Livingston
Beyond the Primordial Ooze: "Real" Americans and the Supposed Divide Between Science and Religion Dinty W. Moore
Search History Rachel Wilkinson
Man of Science, Man of Faith William Wan
"Shuddering Before the Beautiful": Trains of Thought Across the Mormon Cosmos Jamie Zvirzdin
Under the Stars Sylvia Sukop
The Best Panaceas for Heartaches Kristin Johnson
Shaping the Spiritual Jonathan Callard
Writing about Rituals, and Rituals That Help Us Write Jessica Mesman Griffith
Getting Away from Getting Away from It All Rachel Mabe
Revisiting the Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer Cynthia D. Bertelsen
Trying to Conceive Bethany Marcel
Contributors
Cynthia D. Bertelsen
Cynthia D. Bertelsen is a writer and photographer and the associate editor of Bacopa Literary Review. Her book, Mushroom: A Global History... read more
Jonathan Callard
Jonathan Callard writes and lives in Pittsburgh. His nonfiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Image, Arts & Letters, and Gulf Stream, and... read more
Sherrie Flick
Sherrie Flick’s nonfiction has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Superstition Review, and... read more
Jessica Mesman Griffith
Jessica Mesman Griffith is the author of the memoirs Love and Salt and Strange Journey and a cultural columnist for US Catholic magazine.... read more
Lee Gutkind
Lee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” is the founder and editor of Creative... read more
Lee Gutkind & Dan Sarewitz
Lee Gutkind, the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at CSPO and Professor in the Hugh Downs... read more
Kristin Johnson
Kristin Johnson is an associate professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma,... read more
Sonja Livingston
Sonja Livingston’s first book, Ghostbread, won the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction and has been honored with awards from the... read more
Rachel Mabe
Rachel Mabe is at work on a book about the existential agonies of growing up female in America. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, the... read more
Bethany Marcel
Bethany Marcel’s work has been published in Fiction Advocate, the Nervous Breakdown, Motherwell, and Entropy, among others. She has... read more
Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore is author of the memoir Between Panic & Desire and many other books. He has published essays and stories in the Southern... read more
Sylvia Sukop
Sylvia Sukop is an MFA candidate in the creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a recipient of several... read more
William Wan
William Wan is the Washington Post’s science correspondent. He previously served as the Post’s religion reporter, roving... read more
Rachel Wilkinson
Rachel Wilkinson is a Pittsburgh-based writer and researcher whose essays and profiles have appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian,... read more
Jamie Zvirzdin
Jamie Zvirzdin teaches in the Master of Arts in Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins University and is the editor of the anthology... read more
