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Beauty Will Save The World
Thursday March 20, 2008
In Washington, DC’s Forgotten Quadrant, the L’Enfant Plaza canyon brims with shapeless bureaucratic hives. It is a zone where plants die, words recycle, and paper-bloated cubes shiver like snowglobes when commuter trains pass. On a bad day, the red tape flows freely and fed lifers nap miserably. On a good day, your tax dollars are stewarded very slowly by pale, lonely people who need to get out....
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At the Crossroads: Science, Art, & Faith
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Given my abysmal expectations for coverage of religious matters in the mainstream news industry, it was a pleasure to read–both online and in my local newspaper!–about the 2008 Templeton Prize recipient: Polish physicist, cosmologist, philosopher and Catholic priest, Michael Heller.
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A Generation of Byrons
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Mark Edmundson has published a fascinating article describing the current generation of students. They are an active, intelligent, vulnerable bunch: "Its members have a spectacular hunger for life and more life. They want to study, travel, make friends, make more friends, read everything (superfast), take in all the movies, listen to every hot band, keep up with everyone they've ever known. And there’s something else, too, that distinguishes them...."
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North and South
Monday March 17, 2008
In Maine, people say, “If you don’t do winter, you don’t deserve summer.” But after I fell on the ice one too many times this winter, I flew south. On the plane, I read in USA Today about the recent Pew Trust U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, which noted that Northern New England and the West had the highest proportion of “none’s,” people who believed in God, but were interested in customizing their religious experience.
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Absolution and other Poetic Blessings
Friday March 14, 2008
Reading Rafael Campo’s new book of poems, The Enemy (Duke UP, 2007), makes me appreciate what intriguing religious poetry can come from someone outside of conventional religious practice. Campo grew up in the Catholic church and culture of his Cuban-American community, but...
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