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Following a harrowing, itinerant childhood and an adult life plagued by mental health struggles, Carrie Sheffield shares how her life was transformed by a renewed faith in God and an awareness of how spirituality and science can mutually promote healing.
The article explores why humans tend to attribute misfortunes to God, overlooking human-induced causes. It highlights a historical pattern where adversity leads people to seek divine explanations instead of addressing tangible factors like deforestation and pollution. Religion strongly influences this tendency, emphasising divine providence in both favourable and unfavourable events. The psychological mechanisms include cognitive dissonance and the comfort derived from externalizing blame onto a higher power. The article advocates for introspection, individual responsibility, and challenging c...
Resist the temptation to walk away from God when despair is the air that you breathe.
Dr Gladys Ganiel is Reader in Sociology at Queen's University, Belfast, an author and an international athlete. She is married to Brian O'Neill and they have a son, Ronan (5). Dr Ganiel helps to organise the 4 Corners Festival in Belfast, which takes place next month. Q. Can you tell us something about your background? A. I was born in Maine in the USA and brought up in a village of 900 people. My father, Carl, was a builder and my mother, Jennie, worked in a blueberry processing factory. Sadly, she passed away in 2015. I have two older sisters, Becky and Carla. I am 43 and married to Brian O...