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It’s Incredibly Satisfying
Friday July 3, 2009
I started twittering this week. “You don’t even answer your voice mail,” my husband Ben pointed out. Still, I tried to justify it by arguing that Twitter is the best way for me to keep in touch with a whole raft of friends who are nearly as phone averse as I am. But he was nonplussed—especially after he found....
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Owning the Spirit
Thursday July 2, 2009
This month I bought a large framed photograph of the Holy Spirit. Impossible, you say? Heretical, perhaps? But imagine this: An empty dance floor in an old school or a city loft somewhere. A row of casement windows open to the breeze, light streaming in. A single metal folding chair against....
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Well Met
Wednesday July 1, 2009
I was working last week where I used to live, on the Navajo Reservation, part of a service trip with my parish. We rehabbed a trailer in Tuba City, hoed the sandy ground, and repaired doors and roofs in Moencopi, the Hopi village across the highway, pausing at times to look up and....
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Michael Jackson: Idol or Icon?
Tuesday June 30, 2009
After four days of wall-to-wall Michael Jackson coverage, with no letup in sight, if there is one thing I’m thoroughly sick of hearing, it’s the obligatory reference to Jackson as a “pop icon.” If my unscientific survey is any indication, the term “icon” is now used far more often than....
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An Inconvenient Wife
Monday June 29, 2009
In 1986, Soraya Manutchehri, a young Iranian mother, was buried up to her waist in dirt with her arms bound at her sides. People with whom she’d lived her entire thirty-five years—including her own father and sons—then cascaded her skull with stones. The rocks were carefully chosen, large enough to....
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Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is a welcome voice in contemporary poetry. His is a gracious, impassioned intellect, full of both energy and gravity—and here is a broadly read writer who affirms the value of timeless religious questions.
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