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A Novelist Visits the Museum I look at what is here despite the clear paucity of funding, the external threats, the impossibility of creating a single national narrative for a country as divided about its reason for existing as Pakistan. … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/31/us/same-sex-interfaith-couples-face-a-roadblock-to-marriage-in-judaism.html?_r=2

The Atlantic So let’s imagine a scenario. A devout Christian emigrates from Nigeria to a progressive American college town, where she takes up work as a pharmacist. She quickly finds herself at odds with the dominant culture around her. Co-workers … Continue reading →

The Atlantic

Calvin College Origins How Frisians came to Whitinsville

http://themoderatevoice.com/32442/whats-in-a-name-a-dutch-name-that-is/

such philosophies of Progress or Creative Evolution themselves bear reluctant witness to the truth that our real goal is elsewhere. When they want to convince you that earth is your home, notice how they set about it. They begin by … Continue reading →

Lifeway

The AtlanticA Stanford Man Alleges Sexual Assault Salon: Occidental case of a drunking man and woman Dreher: Too Drunk to have Sex

Smithsonian The truly unique trait of Sapiens is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to describe reality. We use our communication system to create new realities. Of course not all fictions are … Continue reading →