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Rite of the Hermit
Her milky white lantern Hidden in the darkness Of velvet ebony night.
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Visitors From the Lonely Mountain: A Hobbit Story
“Remind me again why we invited the dwarves to visit instead of sending an envoy to them?” he demanded between winces.
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Listen to the Feminine: Women in Islamic Spirituality
BY JEREMY HENZELL-THOMAS At the same time the Qur’an tells us that diversity is ordained for us so that we may come to know one another.
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Mightier Than the Sword
BY KAT CLEMENTS “Tonight I shall be rid of this pen once and for all. Tonight I will burn it until there is nothing left but a pile of ash.”
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Posing for Selfies at the Foot of the Cross
And let The People say how brave it is, to pose for selfies at the foot of the Cross.
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The Timeless Need for Forgiveness
BY SAFI KASKAS Forgiveness is not a gift to the other as much as it is a gift one gives to oneself. It reconciles us with people and with our Creator.
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Christos Razdajetsja! Christ Is Born!
BY CHRISTOPHER WOODS Christ is born; let us glorify him. Christ comes down from heaven; let us go out to meet him.
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Honey from a Lion’s Ribs: Thinking and Praying Over Jerusalem
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI O my God, have you not seen us all here, all of us, Your children? Are we so very different, we who submit to Thee?
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A Present for all the Frodo Healers: A Lord of the Rings Story
Frodo touched his finger to a hidden spring and the little fob popped neatly in half. Inside were two tiny milk teeth.
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Can Piety and Creativity Co-Exist?: An Islamic Perspective
BY VERONICA POLO No one can deny the subtle and refined beauty of Islamic architecture or the ethereal splendor of Arabic calligraphy.
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Laden with Fruit and Always Green
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI And is that a wounded knight I see, as a newborn? Is the blood of birth but a shadow of the flood to come?
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Tithen: A Lord of the Rings Story
Indeed she was the biggest, fattest cat he had ever seen, standing almost as high as Frodo’s shoulder where he sat on the rug and at least as big again around.
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Oh, Ye Lovers!: A Meditation on Mawlana Rumi and St. John of the Cross
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Oh, ye lovers, dance! Whirl as the petals of the rose unfurl and find the Center of all Longing, the Oneness of all Being.
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Burnt: A Harry Potter Serial- Chapter 32: Dumbledore’s Last Stand
“Puer ignis. Child of Fire. Fire was far more than just a state of burning. It was in and of itself a beginning and an end. Fire cleansed. Fire started and fire ended. He and Gellert had created the spell and then he had further modified its original design into something far more dangerous.”
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A Light to the Nations: A Reflection on Isaiah’s Prophecy
BY HANNAH VINCENT Once more, Isaiah speaks not only of literal yokes, poles, and rods, but the binding worries that seek to entangle our lives.
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The Jeweler’s Apprentice: Chapter 21
BY E. KAISER WRITES “Bad news, Brithin,” the fellow said apologetically. “That scoundrel escaped early this morning.”
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Meeting in the Black Forest
…We already knew what happened to your parents. We were still in anxious wait for word of your sister. And to hear that … is it not still a sorry fate for a genie?” “A lamp is better than . . .”
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Slaves, Sons, and Submission: Christian and Muslim Understandings of God
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI I believe it’s fair to say that all three of the Abrahamic faiths see God as both transcendent and immanent.
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Snowflakes
Snowflakes are twirling The wind is whirling All throughout the land…
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If in a Desert
True roses bloom; dust only blows away If in a desert live we, still – we live