Tuesday, 12 January 2016

The Pastor Whose ‘Excessive Piety' Was Caused by His Atrophying Brain

The Pastor Whose ‘Excessive Piety' Was Caused by His Atrophying Brain

Of course he was pious, maybe even disconcertingly so, his wife reasoned at first. He was a pastor. But over the years, certain behaviors became more extreme, and thus harder to explain away. For one, the 60-year-old North Carolina man refused to tolerate questions about certain passages that contradicted his own interpretations; meanwhile, his congregation shrank, no doubt as a result of his increasingly odd behavior.

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