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Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions by Jill Ver Steeg I sat across the table in the boardroom on Tuesday with executives from Lilly Endowment.  On Thursday

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John, Next Door

School was less than a block away when I was a kid, so I walked, every day, sometimes out the front door, sometimes the back.

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The Wall Is Already Built

If I were you, I would have stopped paying attention a while ago. The maddening and sickening work of keeping track of the constant headlines

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St. Martha Takes a Break

At first, I thought it was rather ironic that I’ll be on vacation on the feast day of the woman I consider my patron saint

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Seeking the Face of the Text

By David Timmer Aviyah Kushner grew up immersed in the Hebrew Bible. Born to an American Jewish father and an Israeli mother, she was raised

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The Stewardship of Words

Words. I love words. I love the way they look and sound. I love learning their secret histories and cracking them open to explore what’s

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Death, Life, and Crash Helmets

Death, Life, and Crash-Helmets by Jill Ver Steeg Annie Dillard in her book Teaching a Stone to Talk writes: Does anyone have the foggiest idea

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One Day on the Mount

Do not worry. I get it. You’re trying to be gentle and reassuring and I appreciate that. I do. But you realize I have anxiety/depression,

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