To be sure, we need left-brain faculties to hack our way through life’s jungle of detail and jumble of facts. Faith is not a thought-free zone. But God gave us separate hemispheres for a reason. Each one of these two hemispheres is very different structurally, physiologically, and psychologically.5 The right hemisphere makes connections and loves possibility and novelty. The left hemisphere pins things down and loves maps, charts, and laws. The two different realities dance in creative tension, a choreography of complexio oppositorum, that is the spark of all human creativity and imagination,
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