In this episode, Claire Ashmead reads her essay, "Ridiculous But True," an examination of the mysteries of faith, atheism, and attending services at St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh.
Claire Ashmead is from Cleveland, Ohio. She graduated from Princeton in 2017 and obtained a Masters in fiction through the University of Edinburgh in 2018. She works as a research assistant and is studying medicine, which she hopes to bring to underserved communities in her home city. She comes from a single-parent home and was not brought up with religious faith, but in the past has attended Anglican services.
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