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** Home again, home again
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As I write this, I have been home for less than one day after the Wild Goose Festival. It was a fun, engaging (very hot) event in a field in North Carolina that featured Century contributors like Amy-Jill Levine ([link removed]) , Josh Scott ([link removed]) , Lauren Sawyer ([link removed]) , David Gushee ([link removed]) , and more—along with many people we hope will be future writers for the magazine! The festival was great, but honestly the last 16 hours have been bliss. My desk. My couch. MY BED.
Beyond these comforts, there is something about being home (for those of us blessed with a safe home environment) that matters, something that involves belonging and being ourselves. Columnist Yolanda Pierce observes this dynamic on campus in a young person’s phone call home ([link removed]) . Poet Bonnie Thurston seems to tap into a spiritual sense of home in a new poem about weekly church rituals ([link removed]) .
Scroll down for more great new content, like Ann Pederson’s essay on a mouse that has helped her rethink the image of God ([link removed]) . Plus more, including our lively video of the week with Rebecca Bratten Weiss about James Joyce and Catholic deconstruction ([link removed]) .
Email me: Where do you feel at home? Why?
Jon Mathieu
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** Phoning home ([link removed])
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“I couldn’t help but reflect on the human and spiritual value of something as simple as a phone call to or from home—those small gestures of connection that remind you that you are not alone in this world.”
by Yolanda Pierce
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** OncoMouse and me ([link removed])
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“As a transgenic animal, OncoMouse blurs the boundary between humans and nonhumans. She breaks our understanding of what it means to be human and, consequently, she challenges what it means to be created in the image of God.”
by Ann Milliken Pederson
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** Rebecca Bratten Weiss on James Joyce’s Ulysses and Catholic deconstruction ([link removed])
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[VIDEO] Jon chats with Rebecca Bratten Weiss about her recent article about James Joyce’s Ulysses. It holds up after her Catholic deconstruction!
** In the Lectionary for July 21 (Ordinary 16B) ([link removed])
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An exhausted Jesus responds to the crowd with compassion. I think that’s a miracle.
by Joanna Harader
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** Come Wednesday Morning ([link removed])
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“In the interstices between
feeding and being fed
I sit in the silent sanctuary . . .”
poem by Bonnie Thurston
** The souls of Jamel Brinkley’s stories ([link removed])
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“Jamel Brinkley’s characters resist easy typology; he wants us to look more closely for their souls.”
Lawrence Wood reviews Witness
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