Twenty years ago, Professor Dale Brown introduced me to “A Small, Good Thing,” a short story by Raymond Carver. I will tell you the story here, but it will still be worth your finding it, reading it, and then rereading it again.
In January, the Diocese of Washington’s convention approved a resolution “to remedy passages that use language that has been interpreted as anti-Semitic while maintaining the meaning and intent of the original Greek texts.”
Nearly five years after it hit best-seller lists, a book that purported to be a 6-year-old boy's story of visiting angels and heaven after being injured in a bad car crash is being pulled from shelves