by Heather Zeiger | Oct 27, 2020 | Newsletter
If there is one good thing about the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s online conferences. As a freelancer, conferences provide an opportunity to step out of the home office and be refreshed and encouraged by fellow scientists, writers, bioethicists, or creatives. Often...
by Heather Zeiger | Sep 9, 2020 | Science
“What will we do after the war?” Dorothy Sayers asked this of her readers in 1942 in her essay “Why Work?” ““The question that I will ask you to consider today is this: When the war is over, are we likely, and do we want to keep this...
by Heather Zeiger | Jun 14, 2020 | Society
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.Martin Luther King, Jr. Racial injustice, viral pandemics, job loss–Is God there? Does he see? The Psalms have many prayers of lament that ask these very questions and then...
by Heather Zeiger | Apr 7, 2020 | Society, Technology, Uncategorized
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams said, “It’s tragically fitting that we’re talking at the beginning of Holy Week because this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most Americans’ lives, quite frankly.” I had been thinking about the restrictions placed on us...
by Heather Zeiger | Mar 13, 2020 | China, Society
I wrote two articles for Mind Matters on China’s censorship and surveillance practices amidst the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak (here and here). After writing these articles, I had several people ask me about the coronavirus and whether I was worried. I said I...
