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** A Biography as Dashing as its Subject
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Review by Drew Nathaniel Keane

John Donne was a preacher, briefly a pirate, briefly a prisoner, and a writer of swaggering erotic poetry. From 400 years’ distance, his work offers “ways of reckoning with the grimly and majestically improbable problem of being alive”. Read the review ([link removed]) .

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** A Heroic Educator's Memoir
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Review by Patrick Gahan

The monks who built an Episcopal school in the foothills of the Tennessee made an indelible mark on the mountain community, while evangelizing and educating the "barefoot boys" of Appalachia. In altered form, the "school on the Mountain" flourishes still. Read the review ([link removed]) .
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** Committed
to Mission
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Review by John L. Kater

At Virginia Theological Seminary, the cosmopolitan outlook has been described as "a demand for attachment to distant and different people. It was a value that centered on the cultivation of mutual obligations that need not be deterred by distance but would lead increasingly outward.” Read the review ([link removed]) .

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** The Spiritual Dynamo of the 20th Century?
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Review by R. William Franklin

Religion became a driving force in Manhattan because Protestants applied modern business methods to their parishes; Roman Catholic charities supported hospitals, orphanages, schools, and colleges; and Jews directed funding to popular causes, philanthropy, and women’s issues. Read the review ([link removed]) .
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** A Historian's Safari
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Review by Lawrence N. Crumb

An autobiography of Peter Brown, the first historian who recognized the vitality of the late antiquity period, AD 200-700. His interest was piqued by the proposition that "Roman civilization did not die a natural death; it was murdered." Read the review ([link removed]) .

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