Day: October 1, 2011

Articles

Prophylactic Poetry

This morning I straightened the shoes in the front hall and said to the dog, the most attentive member of the family, “I’d do it

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Popcorn + Prophets

EYES THAT SEE They gather downtown each week in the small living room of an upstairs apartment. It started out as one friend opening her

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Rain and Drought

My wife, Karin, handed our young son to a nurse who would take him to an operating room for open-heart surgery. As I watched, I

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Duelling Bonhoeffers

If you want to know more about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor, theologian, and Nazi resister, you are in luck. Your choices

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Body Language

I love the way the kingbird feeds by acrobatics from the trees along the lake. She lunges from her branch above the water to snatch

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Economy of Judgment

In February 2009, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote one of his many much-talkedabout Op-Ed pieces, this one about the furor being raised over

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