A profoundly Russian author, Olga Sedakova offers insights into Christian living for a worldwide audience.

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Túpac Shakur is widely recognized as a musical pioneer. On what would be his 50th birthday, it is time to recognize him as a prophet as well.

the sense of her knowing I have long been motherless itself a mother to me

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