Eighty-one-year-old Mary Oliver is widely acclaimed for her wise, lyrical poetry that presents life as a spiritual pilgrimage.
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Norah Jones—perfect music for Starbucks or a dinner party?
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a unique book of 25 lovely readings about animals paired with glorious woodcuts
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How should we live in a culture that no longer values truth?
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I write this review on the evening of the death of 82-year-old Leonard Cohen,
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Arrival, the latest offering from French Canadian film director Denis Villanueve, steers far from the violent subject matter of his last, well-received movie, Sicario
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It started out as a normal Friday morning in February.
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Are we denying Christ by going on a family reunion cruise
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Kent Annan is the co-director of Haiti Partners, a nonprofit developing education in Haiti,
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“Strange” is an apt word for this doctor, whose origin story bends both matter and mind.
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Partway through Bon Iver’s latest album, a pitch-shifted voice booms over top of a noisy clamor.
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Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch theologian and statesman, has been very influential in Reformed thinking.
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In 2018 many of us will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the adoption of the Belgic Confession, Heidelberg Catechism, and Canons of Dort
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“shall transact ecclesiastical matters only.” Does that mean they are prevented from addressing climate change
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Brent Van Staalduinen’s expertly crafted debut novel begins with a thief robbing a thrift store at gunpoint and then pocketing a little silver box from an allegedly magic cubbyhole.
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During World War II, a young man from Virginia named Desmond Doss passed up a possible deferment and joined the army, in spite of being a conscientious objector.
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Just when we think we’ve heard every take on Handel’s classic, along comes a new recording by Emmanuelle Haïm.
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Young Sefia is in danger. She has a strange object called a book