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Doris Lessing in 2006

Doris May Lessing CH, OBE (née Tayler; October 22, 1919 - November 17, 2013) was a British writer, author of novels including The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook. Through her writing career, Lessing expressed a sense of outrage over injustice and an attempt to find an alternate way of life and social system that would meet her own and humanity's aspirations. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.

Popular Article: Conscience

The good Samaritan (after Delacroix) by Vincent van Gogh

The conscience refers to a person’s sense of right and wrong. Having a conscience involves being aware of the moral rightness or wrongness of one’s actions, or the goodness or badness of one’s intentions. In a Christian context, conscience is often conceived as a faculty by which God’s moral laws are known to human beings. Being ‘judged’ by one’s conscience can lead to guilt and other ‘punitive’ emotions.

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The seventeenth century English author Sir Thomas Browne merged the new method of scientific inquiry with his Christian faith (source: Sir Thomas Browne)

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