Born in 1934, she was raised as a Congregationalist Christian in Britain during a period that included the Great Depression and the Second World War.
At one time infatuated with a new minister at her local congregation “there were never enough services for my liking,” she recalled in a 1999 memoir, “Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey” Ms. Goodall later backed away from explicit Christian beliefs, saying in a 2010 Reader’s Digest article, “I don’t have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power.”
Earlier that year, however, she answered an interviewer at Britain’s Guardian newspaper “I suppose so,” when asked if she was still a Christian, noting that she’d been raised as one.
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