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Words are absorbent. Used often enough in partisan slogans or ad campaigns, or by certain religious groups or by “influencers” (itself a word with a
“Return” by Anya Krugovoy Silver When he returned home after many years,an enormous oak had split his house in two,its trunk growing right through the
My brother and I grew up in a small house with four adults–two parents, two grandparents, all of whom had things to say. All of
Today I won’t pretend to understandthe ways we care for one another.Today I will simply standin these thick woods and lovehow the branches of one
Heretic martyr, chained to the stake, Jan Hus sangand prayed while a hooded executioner held a torchto the dry sticks that pricked his feetand a
I recently finished reading Stolen Focus by Johann Hari and have been urging friends to hasten out, get a copy, and do likewise. In this
Most kids my age wouldn’t have found a lengthy biography of a medical missionary gripping summer reading. I wasn’t a particularly pious child, though my
Fallowing soil is a method of sustainable land management used by farmers for centuries . . . Arable land lies unsown,unplowed, unvisited except by noiselesscreatures going
