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TV as Mediator of Community

I have relatives who have not watched television in over thirty-five years. At times, I envy them. They spend their evenings reading books that nourish

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Vile Things

No vile thing? Well, that pretty much kills off anything that’s not animated, though we’re not terribly sure about the soundness of Buzz Lightyear or

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Depth and Detail, Affordable and Accessible

The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History offers clear, concise and detailed information of individuals, organizations and events whose contributions influenced the landscape

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The Doorway

The distance between life and death, which often seems as wide as the Pacific, can become as slim as a doorway. On Tuesday, March 23,

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Following Tracks in the Dark

In the preface of her new book of poems, her seventh, Jeanne Murray Walker asks “Why read poetry?” and answers: poetry has given us “solace

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Story-Shaped Lives

I still have the handmade birthday card my fifth grade teacher gave me—an enormous piece of folded yellow construction paper with a big orange bookworm

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The Ordeal of the Sermon

Every Sunday night I repeat the same dumb little joke. I say to my wife, “Hey hon, guess what I have to do tomorrow.” She

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