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Readers have a wide variety of reactions to the Globe's photojournalistic portrait of Lynda Bluestein, who traveled to Vermont from Connecticut to die on her own terms. ....
A former evangelical Christian looks back in pain Updated January 24, 2021, 2:30 a.m. Email to a Friend Millions embrace a higher purpose, and theyâre not storming buildings Reading Monica Roddenâs condemnation of evangelicalism (âWould I have stormed the Capitol?â Ideas, Jan. 17), I am reminded of how dangerous it is to make universal generalizations from the contours of oneâs mind and apply them wholesale to a large group. Rodden writes that she was born again in her adolescence, but this confuses a ritualistic practice â praying a prayer of confession, walking to the front of a church â with a spiritually transformative inner experience that has always been a foundational element of biblical Christianity. Now in her postmodern skepticism about objective truth, she is left only with her own mental projections for what is true and what is not. ....