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Jessica Bratt

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Scars

Listen to the three-minute story here. There have been a couple times when I’ve had experiences as a chaplain on Holy Saturday that have made

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A few good reads

As women’s history month wraps up, I thought I’d feature some books that have made an imprint on me in the past year or two

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Something’s Missing

“Christians Provide Free Labor on Jewish Settlements” Plenty of news stories leave me feeling bothered; this story also left me sad. I couldn’t put my

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Lent’s Pachyderm

Behold the elephant in the room. Banksy, the street graffiti artist, had this elephant in the room as part of his first US exhibit (Los

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Sankofa memories

On a layover in Atlanta this fall, my hurried walk through terminal E was interrupted when I noticed a few display cases. I paused and

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Herod’s Long Shadow

Whether or not Herod’s “Massacre of the Innocents” in Matthew 2 is based on historical fact, and whether thousands of babies were killed or just

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an evening at Occupy Boston…

Occupy Boston was just a few weeks old when I trekked downtown to check out the encampment at Dewey Square. MIT professor Noam Chomsky was

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