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Katharine Luebcke - Katharine Luebcke

I hold a Bachelor of Arts in History and Religious Studies from Wright State University. In the course of my degree, I studied a variety of subjects including Biblical studies and philosophy of religion. I had the opportunity to compose papers on an equally large range of topics: the ulterior motives regarding Roger Williams' expulsion from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the relationship of the Puritanical view of women to the American witchcraft hysteria of the late seventeenth century, an analysis of Abraham's covenants with God through the lenses of several different critical methods, and several others.

When I enrolled in my Introduction to Religious Studies class, the professor announced one of his main goals for our class: he intended to increase our stupidity. Not because he wanted to make us dumber, but because it was a necessary step. He separated out ignorance and stupidity. If you are stupid, you realize that you don't know. If you are ignorant, you don't realize that you don't know. We're all willing to call ourselves stupid at times, but none of us wants to claim to be ignorant. I'll admit to a similar goal: the more theories and knowledge circulating, the more we will realize what we have yet to learn and the greater the possibility that we will seek out that knowledge.

I have written fiction for most of my life and am currently submitting both a novel and a short story for publication. I spend far too much of my time writing and editing the aforementioned works, with the rest spent reading, cooking, puttering around in the garden, thinking about the reality of food in relation to human beings, and annoying my venerable cat, Gustav.