Wearing a tie isn’t normally necessary for a Christian Science lecturer, but for this event at the University of Durham in the UK,
I was going to need a bow tie and a new dinner jacket (i.e., tuxedo)! One hundred and seventy years of tradition at Durham Union Society—one of the oldest student-run debating societies in the world—demanded it.
The motion to be debated was this: “This house believes that science has made religion obsolete.” Naturally, I was on the team opposing the motion.
