by Dr. Bill Maynard | Dec 23, 2023 | Writings
BEAUTY AND TRUTH IN PERIL Every July my family takes a week-long vacation on the Florida gulf coast. The area is gorgeous – famed for its surreal blue water, sugar-white sands, and delicious seafood. We stay right on the beach and spend hours every day in the sand...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Dec 17, 2023 | Writings
A QUESTION WITHOUT AN ANSWER Clara stares at me with a mixture of pity and shock. What an expressive face! She telegraphs her feelings with uncanny precision and drama. If we did not trust one another so deeply, I know that the 61 year old lady, who has been my...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Dec 10, 2023 | Writings
MIXED MESSAGES, PART 2 – The False god Within If you take nature as a teacher she will teach you exactly the lessons you had already decided to learn. – C.S. Lewis RUDE AWAKENING One night at the hospital during a dark valley of my residency training, I found myself...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Nov 30, 2023 | Writings
If we used [nature] as our only clue [to God’s character], then I think we should have to conclude that He was a great artist (for the universe is a very beautiful place), but also that He is quite merciless and no friend to man (for the universe is a very dangerous...
by Dr. Bill Maynard | Oct 31, 2023 | Writings
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.” –John Donne, Meditation XVII A TRANSLATION TRIANGLE In a small Peruvian city nestled in the Andes, a crowd of Quechua people, proud descendants of the Inca, wait patiently to have their...
