Spiritual Sunday In today’s Episcopal service we encounter a passage from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans that I particularly like, in large part because it captures an internal conflict that we can all relate to. It also reminds me of a passage from Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867). First, here’s St. […]
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” shows how the Bible can be misused and how we should interpret it to promote social justice.
The baptism of Jesus, like his birth, symbolizes a moment when divinity enters the world.
Dickens draws on the parable of the lost sheep in shaping “David Copperfield.”
Silence can be a very powerful response to tragedy.
The Book of Genesis, like poetry, captures truths inaccessible to science.
Story-truth superior to happening-truth, in war stories and in Bible.
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