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Stolen Children, Part II
Having read the author’s bio of Peg Kehret’s Stolen Children before I even turned to page one, my original intention—to ferret out the book’s nefarious underbelly on behalf of my nine year-old pen pal—felt thwarted at the start. And despite the kind of prose that has the protagonist Amy and her babysitting charge kidnapped at the end of chapter two a mere....
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Stolen Children, Part I
Of all the solicitations that come my way on any given day—be it fundraising letters from Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF, and the like, or take-out menus from neighborhood restaurants strewn like confetti in the vestibule of our brownstone—there has been one that grabbed me in a way that even the most urgent mass appeals couldn’t: a pen pal program pairing members like me of the Writers Guild of America with local schoolchildren in Queens....
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Read, Pray, Love
Anyone vexed (as most of us are) by the ever complex relationship between the Church and the arts would do well to spend a few days, as I recently did, at the remote Benedictine outpost of St. John’s Abbey and University in central Minnesota. In an age of ceaseless conferencing to mediate between....
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Scrapbooks for Cynics
I’m sure there was a time when the very thought would have met the same response in me as it does, no doubt, in some of you. Scrapbooks? No, thanks, but have fun with that. Then at a certain point—June of 1997 to be exact, according to the ticket stub from U2’s Popmart tour on the first page of my first volume—I found myself looking at....
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Here Comes the Amockalypse
Needless to say, it’s a safe bet that Sony Pictures didn’t intend its Friday release of 2012 several weeks back to coincide with that Sunday’s readings in the Episcopal lectionary. But as the Spirit sometimes moves in ways that aren’t so mysterious, I had to laugh at the fact that the cyclical readings that opening weekend....
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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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