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Monks, Mandalas, and Faith Healing
Thursday September 13, 2012
After the initial cleansing ceremony, they worked in silent concentration. Hour after hour they knelt in their maroon robes and yellow shawls, bent over their meticulous labor, creating designs and pictures with brightly colored sand....
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Imago Dei
Wednesday September 12, 2012
What does it mean to write poems in the Christian tradition? Creative writing teachers at Christian colleges wrestle with this question every day, as do many poets who write out of their grounding in Christian faith....
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If This Isn’t an Emergency, Please Hang up and Dial 9/11
Tuesday September 11, 2012
I was there. I should know better than to go about my days like this. This day of all days. If this isn’t an emergency, please hang up and dial 9/11....
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A Heart Exposed
Monday September 10, 2012
My husband is asleep in bed, snuggled under our powder blue quilt. It’s twelve thirty a.m., and he has been home just twenty minutes. He will be up before daylight to operate on infants with heart defects....
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I Abandoned Compliance
Friday September 7, 2012
Between 1994 and 2004, strip search prank call scams happened several times. In each scenario, a perverse prank caller phoned a small business—usually a fast food joint—and persuaded employees to perform acts of sexual abuse....
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