Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol

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** Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol
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The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.
by Matt Gaventa
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** Dirt: Essays by readers
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We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “dirt.”
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** (De)formed by wealth in Succession and Schitt’s Creek
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Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?

by Kathryn Reklis
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** The kinds of stories Toni Morrison told
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No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
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** The holiness of Toni Morrison’s fictional worlds
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Faith, in Morrison’s novels, is about improvising a way toward freedom.

by Amy Frykholm
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** Living by the Word for Sunday, October 6
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Have you noticed God’s preference for small things?

by Dennis Sanders
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** Tasting salvation during a fellowship meal at a maximum security prison
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None of us wants it to end, because we know we'll never see each other again.

by Isaac S. Villegas
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** Action without agency
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A philosophy professor races through a (predetermined?) action plot

by Joshua B. Grace
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** A word that helps keep me rooted as the child of immigrants
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Nadhe is a longing and a hope, a heaven and a solid place on earth.

by Debie Thomas
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** When our past sins come up
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There's no perfect way to atone, but humility is a good start.

by Peter W. Marty
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