[July 2000 journal entry]
Having more than twenty years experience within the medical education/practice sphere, I am convinced the pressure I have felt to weigh every word carefully and radically (i.e., to the root) is not found/felt within the ‘religious’ sphere (or within the ‘medical’ sphere to the extent I anticipated). Discourse within the ‘religious’ sphere is neither conducted so as either to include or to be accountable to the criteria/perspectives of ‘secular’ hearers/participants. I find the absence of pressure within the ‘religious’ sphere to weigh every word carefully and radically (i.e., to the root) to be the case even in the minority of churches where there would be some level of concern.
Having more than twenty years experience within the medical education/practice sphere, I am convinced the pressure I have felt to weigh every word carefully and radically (i.e., to the root) is not found/felt within the ‘religious’ sphere (or within the ‘medical’ sphere to the extent I anticipated). Discourse within the ‘religious’ sphere is neither conducted so as either to include or to be accountable to the criteria/perspectives of ‘secular’ hearers/participants. I find the absence of pressure within the ‘religious’ sphere to weigh every word carefully and radically (i.e., to the root) to be the case even in the minority of churches where there would be some level of concern.
