The New Atlantis Publishes Memoir on Austin Hughes
I am very honored to have my short personal memoir on Dr. Austin L. Hughes published in revised form and sans poem at The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. Check out the latest issue, which includes numerous thought-provoking pieces on such topics as the oil industry and environmental ethics.
A dear atheist friend once turned to me in the middle of a Fernando Ortega concert to whisper, “that’s what holiness looks like.” Shocked by her response to this overtly Christian musician, I later asked what she meant. “I think holiness is when someone finds what they most love to do in this life. You can tell that this guy just lives to play the piano and sing about God. It feels like holiness when you watch it happen.”
The same can be said about the scientific work of University of South Carolina biologist Austin L. Hughes, my teacher, who died in October 2015 at the age of sixty-six…
