Tyler: A Stanford Oncologist Shares About the Evolution of His Faith

An Oncologist and Professor at The Stanford Cancer Center, Tyler discusses how understanding the complicated reality of a life of faith, including dealing with church history, is similar to being vaccinated. He discusses how confronting complexity head-on, even though it was uncomfortable, helped him to handle and even appreciate the gap between experience and understanding.

Further Reading in Faith Is Not Blind:

“Such resources can help us work our way through complexity to mature simplicity. At that point, we are not just optimists and not just pessimists. We are open-minded believers who know that history and life are not always clear-cut and tidy, but we desire to keep learning and improve the status quo, not just to criticize it.”

(Faith Is Not Blind, Chapter 3, “Simplicity, Complexity, and the Internet Age,” p. 21)