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“What the….?”

“You sure as hell can’t talk about hell unless you use the word hell.”  Thus saith Bart Simpson (or something like it) in the car,

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The Geography of Faith

I teach broad surveys of religious history, so I have to pay a lot of attention to the frame and flow of the narrative. Unless

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It’s Only Natural

Ewwwh—that’s just gross!  It is wrong on so many levels.  I often hear people, Christians actually, making visceral comments like this about complex ethical issues. 

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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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That searing stemwinder

  Our lindens are just about the tallest trees in town, I swear.  And there he was, high up top, singing his heart out, that

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Spring Chickens

Today is one of those lovely spring days you get when it seems as though life is simply bursting forth exuberantly all around. Birds are

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