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Are You Ready For a Miracle?
Wednesday April 25, 2012
Caution: Lourdes is a movie that may complicate your prayers. And prayer is complicated enough already, isn’t it? You’re probably familiar with scriptures that advise us how to pray. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I sometimes read those passages as if they were the troubleshooting page of a user’s manual, hoping I might find I’ve overlooked a step, a secret, a keystroke....
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Motion Pictures
Tuesday April 24, 2012
I like movies because other people do the talking and they don’t expect you to say anything clever in reply. Also, something usually happens. I’m suspicious of mass culture, but I’ll say this for the masses—they mostly won’t tolerate two hours of some whiner going on about how exquisitely the world has wounded him. They want a car crash, or for people to fall in love, or better still, for people to fall in love while....
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Tebow
Monday April 23, 2012
When I saw that newly-released Peyton Manning had decided upon the Denver Broncos, I wondered what would happen to Tim Tebow. I didn’t expect the team would keep him, though he’d electrified the franchise, secured many fourth quarter victories, and took them to the playoffs (where he won his first game with an amazing overtime pass, but lost his second in ignominious fashion). That he wound...
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Mikvah
Friday April 20, 2012
Not long ago, on an otherwise unremarkable winter weekday, I set off by myself on a mysterious mission. I got the children dressed for school, lunches made, my son (the same torn jeans, stubborn cowlicks in his hair) into his carpool, and my daughter dropped off at the day care center she attends three days a week. I was wearing the....
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What The Scarlet Letter Taught Me About Reading
Thursday April 19, 2012
Who among those of us who attended American public schools does not remember our first encounter with Hester Prynne, the hapless heroine of The Scarlet Letter? Served up to sixteen-year-olds as standard fare, often sandwiched between Edgar Allan Poe (whose “The Pit and the Pendulum” was, let us admit, far more gripping stuff) and Emily....
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