Homo sapiens, produced by natural selection's minute but inexorable tinkering via the struggles and lusts of a million generations of fearful, ambitious, and absurdly self-important primates.
Lover of a beautiful, intelligent woman. Father of a remarkable and challenging pack of kids.
Engineer. Inventor. Burr under the saddle of dogmatists and authoritarians. Collector of wonderful friends.
An Examination of the Pearl is a study of the doctrine and history of Conservative Laestadianism, a small, exclusivist Christian group that is organized in Finland and North America as the SRK and the LLC, respectively. The book also looks at the teachings of Martin Luther, early Christianity, Christian fundamentalism and sectarianism, and the Bible.