God Calls Us to Be in the Minority

I listened to a podcast while I was running recently about acoustic biologist Katy Payne andher work with whales and elephants. This is what I love about the show On Being. I go into it thinking, “What in the world do I care about whales and elephants?” and I come out of it thinking, “Wow, that was about SO much more than whales and elephants.”

During the interview Payne recalledan incident in which she and her crew filmed the death of a baby elephant. About 100 elephants unrelated to the ba...