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Jennifer L. Holberg

Instruction in Joy

Recently, my department invited our college president to join us for a lunch-time visit. Before he came, we met together to discuss how we’d like

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Pirsumei nisa

Yesterday evening marked the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Many of you are no doubt aware that it commemorates two miracles at

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Jólabókaflóð

By Jennifer Holberg I read recently about a very charming holiday tradition that is celebrated in Iceland called jólabókaflóð. Literally: “Christmas book flood.” I learned

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Guests or Squatters

O Lord, you know I have no friend like you. If Heaven’s not my home, then Lord what will I do? The angels beckon me

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The Autumn Heart

Yesterday, Mary Oliver released a new collected edition of her work, aptly titled Devotions. I think often of Oliver’s poems–contemporary psalms as surely as they

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The demands of a small god

September 24-30 marks Banned Book Week, something established to remind folks that threats to intellectual freedom are real and ongoing, that the impulse to censor

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