November 26, 2012

Jesus and race in America

Anthony Shadid put his life in harm rsquo s way so many times that his death in February 2012 has come to seem foreordained Here was a reporter who made his name in the crosshairs of war in Iraq of course but also in Israel and Lebanon In 2002 he was shot by an Israeli sniper in Ramallah while

Paul Krugman on our "gratuitous" recession

The hard-won art of Ferdinand Hodler

Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln' is a canonization fer sure, as Abe might say.

Jet-black flyer, wintry clime,

The Book of Baruch is a beautifully poetic biblical text that takes us back to the period of the Exile a time of darkness for Israel They are a broken people far from their homeland which was ravaged by the Babylonians Just before our reading desolate Jerusalem speaks as a mother to her lost c