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Emily Dickinson’s Unexpected Eucharistic Poem
1651A Word made Flesh is seldom And tremblingly partook Nor then perhaps reported But have I not mistook Each one of us has tasted With...


Frog and Toad Might Just Be Friends…and That’s Okay
here are some books you just like to read over and over again. Frog and Toad is like that,” my eight-year-old daughter told me the other...


Four Tips for Keeping Your Semester Holy
I’m a college English professor with two children, ages 6 and 8. As a new school semester begins for our family, new routines...


How Some Keep the Sabbath: A Christian Scholar Reflects on Sabbatical
When you go on sabbatical, there are two common questions that are asked before and throughout: “What are you working on?” and “Where are...


Catholics: There’s no reason to fear (or ban) Judy Blume’s ‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’
“I wasn’t allowed to read that book” or “I had to sneak and read it” are the most common comments I hear from my adult friends when...


Kevin's Suburban Panopticon?: Home Alone and the Christmas Spirit
For adult audiences revisiting the now classic 1990 film Home Alone, Kevin McCallister has become synonymous with a privileged rich kid...
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