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139. BioLogos Book Club | Transcendent Kingdom

Language of God

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Introduction

Transcendent Kingdom by Yajiyasi is the story of an African-American girl named Gifty who grew up in Alabama with immigrant parents from Ghana. She was good at science, went to Harvard and then to Stanford where she worked on a PhD in neuroscience trying to understand the biological basis of addiction in the brain. Throughout the book there are themes explored related to mental illness, both addiction and depression,. race, the American dream and of course the relationship between science and religion.

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