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Cemetery Story: A Muslim’s Memoir
BY NAZIA IFTEKHAR I enter the cemetery and follow the all too familiar winding paths.
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Lives and Works of the Great Authors: Homer
BY GUY JACKSON Of the two poems commonly attributed to Homer, the Iliad was traditionally considered the more sublime.
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Mysteries of the Deep
BY MICHAEL GOTH The old man lit his pipe. He shook out the match, tossed it away and took a drag.
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Sir Gawain and the Princess of Elfland: Part 6
By Giovanni Carmine Costabile On New Year’s Day, in the early morning, Sir Gawain mounted Gringolet and, following the guide Lord Berleddisg had appointed…
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Brigid of the Flame
BY TIMOTHY MATHER I am known as Mary of the Gael. I am the Queen of generosity, for Christ dwells in every creature.
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Washington Takes Command: An American Girl Story
BY HANNAH SKIPPER “Mr. Adams argued that if the colonies didn’t unite around the cause, then they’d lose.”
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Under the Brooklyn Bridge
“The arches would rise more than a hundred feet, like majestic cathedral windows or the portals of a triumphant gateway”
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Sir Gawain and the Princess of Elfland: Part 5
By Giovanni Carmine Costabile “Where are we?” Gawain asked the porter, as the latter escorted him through candlelit corridors and magnificent halls…”
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Tolkien & Teilhard, Creation & Evolution: Alternative Sages of the Modern Age
BY WARREN HERMAN Tolkien and Teilhard were both, in their own ways, masters of narrative. In different ways, they give us two alternative visions of the world.
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The Two Messengers
BY EDWIN WOODRUFF TAIT Perhaps to the clear-eyed angel there was nothing in the word he brought but glory
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And All Of Us Prepared the Feast…
BY G. CONNOR SALTER Inside the castle, my several hundred coworkers and I looked perfect for a faux medieval party.
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Sir Gawain and the Princess of Elfland: Part 4
By Giovanni Carmine Costabile Despite the knight’s desire to leave for Gogledd Cymru the next day at dawn, Sir Gawain’s leavetaking…
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Theophanies
BY SARAH BINGHAM They knew the way and where to go – God led them by a star.
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Christmas Choirs
BY AMANDA PIZZOLATTO Oh listen, listen, to voices as deep as the sea, singing a chant worshipping the Godhead Three
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A History of Light
BY REGAN KING In the Universe began a beautiful symphony
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An Elegy for Puppets: Remembering a Christmas Craftsman
BY G. CONNOR SALTER Christmas is more than just hope, peace, joy and love..It is a story with its share of strife, and for many of us, a time to mourn what we’ve lost.
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Sir Gawain and the Princess of Elfland: Part 3
By Giovanni Carmine Costabile Outside the West Gate, two main routes departed: there was the Portway, heading south-west-ward to Durngueir…
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A Snow Globe and a Discarded Child
BY LAWRENCE HALL A dreaming child peers into a little glass dome Where snow falls upon a tiny world:
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Coming Together: A Look Back at Season Two of Star Trek: The Next Generation
BY MICHAEL GOTH Separating the uneven first season and the excellent third, is season two.
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Twelve Days of Yuletide
BY AMANDA PIZZOLATTO On the first day of Yuletide, my uncle gave to me an evil golden Ring.