Five Poems to Read on Veteran's Day
In Flanders Fields by John Mccrae In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the...
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Oct 20, 2017
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Oct 17, 2017
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Sep 19, 2017
The Ache of All Creation: An Interview with Douglas McKelvey
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Sep 14, 2017
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Sep 4, 2017
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Aug 8, 2017
The Half-Life of Holiness, Part 1
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Aug 3, 2017
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Jun 6, 2017
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Jun 5, 2017
If Steve Jobs Translated the Beatitudes
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Jun 2, 2017
Looking Closer: Beauty, Truth, and Evil in the Movies
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