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Is the Story a Treasure?
Every now and then I get a note from someone wondering why I, a pastor and theological teacher, do not say more in my columns about religion.
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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.
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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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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.
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I Painted Patches for the Air Force
I have been requested by our son, an American Studies PHD, to write down my story of making flight jacket “patches” for Air Corps crews during World War II, which he feels should be preserved.
