November 28, 2012
Six weeks later…
I hadn’t intended the October 17 entry to be my last one
during the Atheist Prayer Experiment, but this is the first I’ve returned to
post on the site. I did continue to comment on the APE Facebook page, and I
very much enjoyed the people I met there.
I did, in fact, continue praying until the 40th
day, though from day 1 to day 40, I probably missed five or six days. If I got up late in the morning, and I told myself that I was going to pray later
in the day, sometimes I never got back around to it.
At the close of the project, Justin Brierley, the host of Unbelievable, emailed out a
list of questions to everyone; it was his means of gauging the impact of 40
days of prayer in the lives of the participants.
I answered those questions from Justin in a telephone
interview, parts of which were used for the second Unbelievable episode on the
APE, broadcast on November 17,
2012. The podcasts for the twoUnbelievable APE episodes can be found at this link or at iTunes. The sound file of my individual interview can
be heard or downloaded at this link.
I haven’t decided what to do with this blog now that the APE
is over. My other online writing is in a forum that is more targeted toward
specific subjects, and it is less suited to editorial comment or, for that
matter, candor. I can be more candid
here, but that doesn’t free me from the obligation to focus this blog in a
particular direction. As my sister told
me recently, “you write well, but you haven’t found your voice.” It didn’t take much soul-searching to realize
that she’s right.
For now, I thought I’d conclude my work on the APE, for
those who may have read parts of the project this far. More to come.
