Fingerprints of God, by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
On the recommendation of my parents, I started to read Fingerprints about two weeks ago. I tried to write a review about it a couple of nights ago, but found myself stymied, and instead wrote a (brilliant) analysis of Green Eggs and Ham. But now that I've had time to let the thoughts in Hagerty's book marinate, I think I'm ready.
I enjoyed this book. It was thought-provoking, interesting, challenging, and ultimately comforting. Hagerty, a journalist who at one point had left her Christian Scientist religion by the wayside, says very early on that she was motivated to begin researching whether there was any scientific research that supports that God exists because she had an unexplainable experience that she could only chalk up to being a brush with the divine. Hagerty prides herself on being truthful and factual, and half the battle was fought when she actually convinced herself to pursue this project, throwing her fears of ridicule to the wind. More...