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.
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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.