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PRESENTS

SUNDAY SPOTLIGHT

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON NEWSLETTER

“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” —H. W. Longfellow

In the book of Genesis, one sees the peaks and valleys of parenthood. Take Hagar, “The LORD’s angel said to her, ‘You are now pregnant and are about to give birth to a son. You are to name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your painful groans.’” From the archive, three authors consider motherhood, fatherhood, and loss.

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JULY 2021 ● BY MARY HARRINGTON

ATOMIZED MOMS ([link removed])

Moms and their babies co-create one another, in complex neurobiological feedback loops.

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NOVEMBER 2002 ● BY DAMON LINKER

FATHERHOOD, 2000 ([link removed])
For all the stresses and strains of life as a new man, there’s no substitute for the act of devoting oneself to another person.

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SEPTEMBER 2017 ● BY LEAH LIBRESCO SARGEANT

LOSING MY CHILD AT EASTER ([link removed])

I spent the Octave surrounded by women bearing wounds it was hard to imagine they could carry.

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