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James Bratt

The Image of God

I’m serving as the campus host of a seminar on the “Bodies of Christ.” For the next two weeks a group of us historians, artists,

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Summer History Reading

Only six more days till the Memorial Day weekend, kids, so it’s time to get serious about those summer plans. Top of the list for

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Dare to be a Daniel

It’s hard to think of a more perfect antithesis than the one served up in this week’s news. On Tuesday night Donald Trump became the

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The Stones Cry Out

Where did America begin? (Accept, dear Canadians and other friends, the substitutionary shorthand of ‘America’ for the USA. Saves words and energy. Thanks.) The most

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Low in the Gravy Lay

In comedy, they say, timing is everything. If so, this post will bomb. It takes up the theme of Easter jokes, a practice in the

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Public Virtue

The course had come around to the question of religion and the American founding, again. This topic I have taken up a hundred times in

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A Puritan Valentine

I like the invitation Steve Mathonnet-VanderWell posed in this space last Tuesday to “share” (“just share”?) religious terms that we personally want to give a

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