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Faith and Foreign Affairs

September 14, 2015

Vol. 213 / No. 6

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Jon Hassler's boyhood home in Plainview, Minn.
Arts & Culture Books
Ed BlockSeptember 02, 2015

Jon Hassler's sacramental imagination brightens a world grown gray with the banality of reality television and teenage paranormal romances.

Books
Diane ScharperSeptember 02, 2015

'In the Country,' by Mia Alvar

Books
Thomas V. McGovernSeptember 02, 2015

'Thirty-Three Good Men,' by John A. Weafer

Books
Kate WardSeptember 02, 2015

'Changing the Questions,' by Margaret A. Farley

LAST CALL. Castmembers salute Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" on August 6.
Television
Bill McGarveySeptember 02, 2015

Few things can humble me more quickly than a brief trip to the Home Depot. I recently found myself lost among the store’s countless plumbing supplies, and when I sought the help of an employee, he looked at me with what appeared to be the disgust of an English professor being asked to spell ca

Poetry
Joe RicciardiSeptember 03, 2015

I bring you a rosewhich you yourself created!Did you create the roseso that I could bring it,or me, so that Iwould find a roseand bring it to you? So, I give myself and a rose.Thank you for the giftof roses which I give back,with my hands opening. I love your roses and you.Can you smell wh

The Word
John W. MartensSeptember 02, 2015

It feels good to belong mdash to one rsquo s family to a group of friends to a team mdash to be part of something bigger than oneself Belonging creates feelings of comfort joy peace and purpose How good must it have felt to be chosen as one of the Twelve Apostles And to have an inkling then