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Gary L. Chamberlain
In a desperate move to bring fresh water to its parched northern regions China is constructing the South-North Water Diversion Project at a cost of 50 billion In the Near East the Jordan River shared among several countries is dangerously low and heavily polluted while in the United States th
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Peter Reichard
In The City of God St Augustine describes how the destruction of Carthage led to Rome rsquo s demise The cloud placed over Rome by its fierce rival kept its morality in check When Rome destroyed Carthage ldquo a crowd of disastrous evils forthwith resulted from the prosperous condition of thin
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J. Greg Phelan
In her 1963 essay ldquo Novelist and Believer rdquo Flannery O rsquo Connor lamented the difficulty of writing about man rsquo s encounter with God and making the experience understandable and credible to a skeptical modern audience devoid of religious feeling ldquo Today rsquo s reader rdquo
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Nathaniel Peters
Thomas Nevin rsquo s The Last Years of Saint Th r se the sequel to his Th r se of Lisieux God rsquo s Gentle Warrior is at once beautiful and maddening It describes the final years of Th r se rsquo s life in great detail and with helpful insights but does it in blustery and reductive pros
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Newspaper editorial writers labor long and hard and in relative obscurity to craft persuasive arguments to win readers to the publication rsquo s point of view on an issue But most readers surveys tell us give little more than a glance to the columns of black ink that carry those arguments The e
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When retired Bishop Walter F Sullivan died this past December countless thousands mourned the loss of a beloved spiritual teacher who had presided over the Diocese of Richmond Va for 29 years The Good Bishop is a fitting tribute to this man who fought for prison reform opposed the death penal