The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.
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** Reading the creation story in a dying world
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The poetry of Genesis 1 invites us into a sort of palliative care for the earth.
by Debra Dean Murphy
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** Flannery O’Connor’s letters with Caroline Gordon and other friends
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Two new collections add to the landmark volume The Habit of Being.
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** A president who thinks he can do whatever he wants
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Trump’s position is not that the facts will vindicate him. It’s that they don’t matter.
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** Sri Lanka’s religious fault lines
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The island is a microcosm of the world’s religions—and of their wars.
by Philip Jenkins
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** Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
by Jonathan Tran
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** Living by the Word for Sunday, October 27
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Jesus' characters aren't nuanced; they're all elbows and ankles.
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** Children’s books for tough conversations
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We asked writers to tell us about a book for young children that provides the occasion for its readers—adults and children—to talk about large or difficult issues.
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** The power of somos más in Puerto Rico
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A new song of liberation is born.
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** How Augustine responded to the problem of evil without solving it
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When we make sense of suffering, we lose our ability to protest against it.
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