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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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Batter My Heart
Friday June 26, 2009
My across-the-street neighbor, violinist Pia Liptak, had to prepare and play Max Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 while her colleague and close friend—the young, internationally acclaimed Japanese koto player Ryuko Mizutani—was dying of cancer. Listening to the CD of....
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Nurse Jackie: Good, But Not Yet
Thursday June 25, 2009
“Showtime’s comedies…have the whole God-Is-Dead thing down to a science,” posits a June 7 Newsday review of the new series, Nurse Jackie, starring Edie Falco of Sopranos fame, as well as the playwright/actor Anna Deavere Smith and Tony nominee Eve Best. Huh?...
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Loving the Holiest Object
Wednesday June 24, 2009
Because he knows this is an issue of special importance to me, Greg asked me this week to blog on June 24, which has been dubbed a North American day of dialogue between Christians and gays. Now, I have to confess, for me to claim I have some special insight into this particular dialogue simply....
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For Priscilla
Tuesday June 23, 2009
I am uncomfortable writing this. I was uncomfortable enough writing a previous post (“Redeemed”) which told the story of the miscarriage my wife and I recently experienced. I wrote that earlier post because of the arguably transcendent (which is not to say happy) note on which the story....
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