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First Word
Friday April 23, 2010
The Bible is not a kid’s book, yet it is a book we want our children to know, a book we want to become an integral part of their lives as they grow into adults. I’m not a parent yet, but already I think about how I will introduce my children to the Bible. I grew up in a small Baptist church that would recognize only the....
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The “S” Word
Thursday April 22, 2010
All my life I have had fantasies of freeing slaves. I believe I have this fantasy more than most because I was raised in Illinois—Land of Lincoln, home to the Great Emancipator—and came of age in a house with numerous Civil War books, including the ubiquitous Time-Life series of hard back, faux-leather-bound books (though they sure did smell....
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Confederates and Other Terrorists
Wednesday April 21, 2010
My aunt, now deceased, grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She was a sweet, genteel, charming southern belle, the epitome of decorum, and so I was a bit taken aback when, as a young man, I heard her swear for the first and only time. The topic was the Civil War, and she was recounting the prolonged siege of her hometown, a siege that her own....
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Jarmusch 102: The Limits of Control
Tuesday April 20, 2010
Do you remember that pregnant pause? Mia Wallace, sucking on a maraschino cherry in Pulp Fiction, poses a flirtatious question to her nervous bodyguard, Vincent Vega. “Don’t you hate that?” she asks. “Hate what?” he replies. “Uncomfortable silences,” says Mia. And yet, it’s obvious that she’s....
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Jarmusch 101
Monday April 19, 2010
The name Jim Jarmusch was all I needed to see. My browse through Blockbuster Video ended there, and I carried a DVD of The Limits of Control home. I wasn’t disappointed. Jarmusch served up all of the eccentricity, surprise, and delight I’ve come to expect from him. And yet, the movie left me with a familiar pang of distress. I keep waiting to find a....
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