Should Biden pardon Trump. This article, citing “Merchant of Venice” and a Milosz poem, argues no.
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On Portia, Milosz, and Pardoning Trump
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See, This Coal Has Touched Your Lips
The image of God touching the lips of Isaiah and Jeremiah shows up in C.S. Lewis’s “Voyage of the Dawn Treader.”
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With the Second Coming, Peaceful Animals
Spiritual Sunday Today’s gorgeous Old Testament reading (Isaiah 11:1-10), which captures the spirit of messianic hope, has images that Milton uses in Paradise Lost. While Isaiah is envisioning the coming of the Messiah, however, Milton is looking back to the world before the fall. It can be again in the future asit once was in […]
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