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Math Is the Answer to More Than One Question
I am surprised at this late stage, in my 70s, to be thinking about God. In my defense, I might…
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This Is Why Jesus Wept
Of all the qualities that the New Testament ascribes to God, compassion is among the most shocking. Compassion has nothing…
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What Can Literature Teach Us About Forgiveness?
“How I’m gon keep from killing him,” says Celie, the protagonist of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel “The Color…
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Can Art Ever Be Innocent?
A riveting show at the Metropolitan Museum surveys the complicated art of the ancient Maya, in which beauty and brutality…
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Having a Hard Christmas? Jesus Did Too
Among my most treasured memories is one Christmas Day when I was around 6 or 7 years old. Christmases in…
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Why Jesus Loved Friendship
The enduring significance of Christmas is that it represents perhaps the most distinctive feature of the Christian faith — the…