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Death, Faustus, and a Search for Meaning

By Robin Bates | Published: February 16, 2012

The Faustus story can aid one in an existential search for meaning.

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Hitchens: A Life Lived in Literature

By Robin Bates | Published: December 19, 2011

Even in his final days, Christopher Hitchens was having active discussions about novels, poems and plays. He understood how much was at stake in literature.

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Christmas Life in the Face of Death

By Robin Bates | Published: December 16, 2011

Comparing the Japanese film “Departures” with “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” give special insight into the meaning of Christmas.

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Wilt Thou Forgive My Sin of Fear?

By Robin Bates | Published: November 6, 2011

Donne’s last question is whether God will forgive Donne’s lack of complete faith in Him.

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Looking to Poetry for Afterlife Evidence

By Robin Bates | Published: October 17, 2010

Spiritual Sunday It has finally sunk in with me that my friend Alan will not recover from his cancer, and I find myself wrestling once again with the questions that arose after my son drowned.  The biggest question, of course, is whether death is the end. Every Sunday in my Episcopal Church I claim that […]

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Singing a Lullaby to a Dead Son

By Robin Bates | Published: September 13, 2010

From time to time I have reported on my friend Alan, who is dying of cancer but who continues to hold his head up and, to the amazement of us all, refuses to get depressed. We held another one of our salons in his honor this past Thursday. After hearing Alan report on the latest […]

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