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Painting Reality

What art captivates your attention? I remember the first time I walked through the Museum of Modern Art, I felt like I was Alice who

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The Wrong Stuff

I was raised a space cadet in the 1960s, part of a generation absorbed and obsessed with astronauts and the moon race.  I remember being

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Gravity

Two weeks ago I went to the late showing of Gravity… by myself. Fitting, I guess. Alone, with my glasses on, in the darkness. I read

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What Set It Off?

I’ve been reading some of the flood of books coming out ahead of next year’s centennial of the start of World War I. There’s something

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Names, Words, and Power

The first football game I attended upon moving to Iowa pitted the Dutch against the Norse. Who knew such strong ethnic sentiments still persisted? Team

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As I see it

 Last week I was in New York for the Brooklyn classis meeting of the RCA. That’s the classis (local body of churches) of which I’m

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