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October 2014

October 20, 2014

Heroes: Jerzy Popieluszko, Who Died Thirty Years Ago This Week

It is good to be reminded that there are heroes in the world, and a...

October 19, 2014

Heroes: Wide-Eyed But Successful

Last night, spurred by the opening of the new Karl Stern archives at Duquesne University,...

October 07, 2014

He Had Materials and a Particular Date

Much commended: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig's Suffering and Suffering-With from Ethika Politika. It begins: When I...

October 03, 2014

Abuse When She Was a Child

Heard on the train from New York to Pittsburgh yesterday: A middle-aged and an older...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

Brooklyn Rescue

How often do you get bitten tells the story of a young man who (as...

July 15, 2014

Christopher Mitchell, R.I.P.

Chris Mitchell, Wheaton and then Biola professor, C. S. Lewis scholar, and a friend to...

July 10, 2014

Watch Out for Nice People

Apparent good news for writers and others on the cranky end of the personality scale:...