Something Good #118: A Pink Laser to the Brain

A passing interest in early Christianity can be dated to when 13-year-old me discovered Philip K. Dick’s novel VALIS on an exchange trip to France. I have vivid memories of reading Dick’s autobiographical science fiction novel on a beach in Normandy, while I lay atop an inflatable mattress that rested on a beach of round, grapefruit-sized stones. Inspired by an episode Dick had in which he…