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New Year’s Resolution
Christmas is the season of gift giving and receiving.
Articles
Perspective
Aristotle’s Poetics and Rape Culture
Principles of literary criticism are seldom visibly applicable to widely discussed current events, but the current discussion of “rape culture” at the University of Virginia obligates me to make one of my rare descents into the politico-cultural maelstrom.
Perspective
Lessons from my Grandmother
Sometimes when I go to the movies and love scenes heat up the screen I think of my grandmother or Bobbe, as we called her in Yiddish.
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A Lesson from Oz
The Tin Man cried because he didn’t have a heart, but how can a heartless person cry over being heartless?
Perspective
Merely Mary
“My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant.
