Kenneth McKendrick

And when we went on vacation, we went to bookstores and cemeteries.

And then I fell in love in high school.

My partner and I have been together for a very long time and her family is Pentecostal.

And so they're charismatic and speaking in tongues and all of that.

And in a sense, you know, me studying religion and making evil part of that, it was trying to make sense of my world.

It was trying to make sense of my everyday reality.

There was

people that seem to live in very different worlds.

And I had some experience of that playing D&D, right?

You're in a normal world, and then you've got the game mechanics, and then you've got this imaginary world that you enter into that is an extension of that real world.

My dad was funny.

He died a few years ago.

But he was funny because it seemed to me that he was mainly at church because of choir and of the tea and cookies.

You know, the family that I married into was a very different, where the Bible is the word of God and it's true and it's literal.

And for me, again, that's why it's not a question about what isn't real.

It's how do people then behave?

What do they do with that information?

That was how I made sense of these sort of worlds I was encountering, the Pentecostal world where demons are alive and inside of people.

And then this D&D world, which I knew to be completely imagined.

And then you get the world of academia too, where we're all scholars and doing scholarly things and scientists.