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If you have found what I have written in Running
Empty
to be true, or if it has stirred your heart or mind in constructive ways, I'm
delighted.
My background matters little, but we're curious
creatures — and you're probably on this page because you were curious — so
here's something about me.
My name is Christina Burbeck. My maiden name
was Anderson; I am married to Steve Burbeck. We have two sons whom we
adore.
I've always liked trying to figure things
out.
I studied math and philosophy in college ( ) where I also played a lot of
volleyball. I went on to graduate school there in mathematics.
Although I found — and still find — mathematics beautiful
and amazing, it didn't satisfy my desire for meaning in what I was doing.
After two years of graduate study — with two years of kicking around in
between — I quit with a master's degree.
An interest in how the brain works led me
to studying cognitive psychology (at  )
where I met my husband.
I studied human vision and got a Ph. D. in psychology (six
months after our first child was born--it was a busy year). I then worked
at  (a research institute in Menlo Park, CA) for 10
years, doing research in vision.
When California got too hectic and expensive, we decided to
move to North Carolina, where we still are 13 years later. I moved my
research to the  where I worked
happily for 6 years before retiring to begin a new chapter of life.
During the years in Menlo Park, and then
much more during the time we've been in North Carolina, my relationship
with and commitment to Christ grew.
My trust in God and my understanding of Him has
been strongly encouraged and supported by my participation in church.
Taking communion in a Presbyterian church marked the real beginning of my
adult life as a Christian. I learned much about the working of the Holy
Spirit in a Nazarene church. We then worshipped for about a year at a
lively Episcopal church before moving to the beach. There I found myself
falling in love with the Catholic Church, my home at last. I believe that
God works wherever people genuinely seek him and that, if we are receptive,
he guides us to churches where we can receive what we need at the time.
Over the years, my love of God grew to the
point that it was time for me to stop doing research and make an effort to
tell other people about what I knew of God.
After a year or two of preparation, and another year of
working out what to say and how to say it, the original Running on Empty web site was born. The second edition
of the site, renamed  (to match the closest available domain name)
was published several years later.
I've tried hard to write the truest true I
know; it's the best I can offer.
I pray that it leads you to consider the
possibility that there is a real, knowable, worthy God who wants you to
know Him and who came to earth — as Jesus Christ, God on earth — to make
such intimate knowledge possible.
If you would like to respond to something
you've read in this site, or discuss it further, please email me at
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