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Books
Tom O'BrienJuly 29, 2000

My mother in an unusually arch moment once proffered a solution to all the church-state debates about Christmas cr ches on public squares Take the clothes off the Wise Men she said That way they could get an arts award Jane Alexander former head of the National Endowment for the Arts likes w

Books
John B. BreslinJuly 29, 2000

Memoirists rule the literary roosts these days but sometimes with a bad conscience Shouldn rsquo t they be writing poetry or at least novels if they are serious writers Isn rsquo t this retailing of their personal lives a knock-off item or maybe even a cheat a pretense of authenticity undercut

Books
Ron Wooten-GreenJuly 29, 2000

If one is looking for a book on grief and grieving based on lived experience rather than more remote psychosocial theories then Thomas Attig rsquo s How We Grieve is the resource to read Although it is not a brand new book first published in 1996 in this reviewer rsquo s opinion no book publish

The Word
John R. DonahueJuly 29, 2000

This Sunday repeats the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent Am 3 11 while the first two readings are selected for the feast Though celebrated from the fifth century in the Eastern church the Transfiguration was introduced into the Western calendar only in 1457 to celebrate the victory over t

The Word
John R. DonahueJuly 29, 2000

The Gospel plunges us directly into the middle of the bread of life discourse which despite its seeming complexity develops two major themes People will attain eternal life by coming to Jesus and being in union with him this coming and living in union flow from God rsquo s gracious initiative m

Thomas E. ClarkeJuly 29, 2000

The first time I realized that I was old, at least in the eyes of others, was when a young woman stood up in a crowded bus to give me her seat. Resisting that sobering message, I continued to think of the old as they, not we. The definitive change came only a few years ago at Bethany, when I was wel

Tom BeaudoinJuly 29, 2000

Kent State is my American Jerusalem. Ever since I stopped at the campus on a whim while driving across Ohio in 1993, I have made yearly pilgrimages to this sacred-secular ground of antiwar activity, where four students died and nine were injured. But I’m no nostalgic baby boomer, no former rad