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The Ways to Dusty Death
At this point, most everyone has seen the evolutionist’s response to the iconic fish symbol, often glued to the back of car trunks: the fish, in the “pure science” retort, has sprouted legs. As if that weren’t enough to send the message, the word “Darwin” appears inside the body. The Ichthys folks have answered....
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Freaks of Nature
In Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side, a non-fiction bestseller recently made into a box office hit with Sandra Bullock, the author focuses on a family that has done an odd thing. The Tuohys, who are white, take into their home a huge black youth from a part of town that statistics show is around the third poorest in....
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Scene from a Mall
I had every intention of writing a film review, but I saw a little girl on the way to the theater. She has changed my plans dramatically. In truth, I assume she has changed many plans in her short life. She could be no older than four, by my estimation, and the parents on either side of her, each with a hand, could be no more than thirty—probably less. But among them....
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Last Things
Throughout the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, the boy, who is one of the two protagonists of the story, thinks he hears or sees a dog. His father, the other protagonist, tells him he is wrong. The world as the man has known it—as the boy has never known it—has come....
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On and On
In Sam Mendes’ Away We Go, Burt Farlander (John Krasinski) begins his preparations for impending fatherhood with self-improvement classes. Representative instruction involves “family defense” and “knot-tying,” courses that could as easily win him a merit badge as ready him for....
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Art by Gerhard Richter, Jeremy Begbie on Orthodoxy, Interview with Les Murray, Fiction by Scott Russell Sanders.
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