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    What’s the Story?

    Sep 22, 2017 4 minutes
    LEE GUTKIND
    The intersections of these two ways of understanding the world are rarely examined—and when they are, the primary narrative is one of conflict.

    I KNOW THAT EXPLORING the harmonies between science and religion is not the kind of subject your average literary magazine might focus on for an entire issue— and maybe that is why I am particularly excited about this issue of Creative Nonfiction.

    Longtime readers may remember our 2014 “Telling Stories that Matter” issue, which featured essays coauthored by science-policy scholars and creative writers. That issue grew out of an innovative program called Think Write Publish (TWP) in

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