Eighty-one-year-old Mary Oliver is widely acclaimed for her wise, lyrical poetry that presents life as a spiritual pilgrimage.
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Norah Jones—perfect music for Starbucks or a dinner party?
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a unique book of 25 lovely readings about animals paired with glorious woodcuts
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I write this review on the evening of the death of 82-year-old Leonard Cohen,
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Arrival, the latest offering from French Canadian film director Denis Villanueve, steers far from the violent subject matter of his last, well-received movie, Sicario
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Kent Annan is the co-director of Haiti Partners, a nonprofit developing education in Haiti,
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“Strange” is an apt word for this doctor, whose origin story bends both matter and mind.
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Partway through Bon Iver’s latest album, a pitch-shifted voice booms over top of a noisy clamor.
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Abraham Kuyper, the Dutch theologian and statesman, has been very influential in Reformed thinking.
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Brent Van Staalduinen’s expertly crafted debut novel begins with a thief robbing a thrift store at gunpoint and then pocketing a little silver box from an allegedly magic cubbyhole.
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During World War II, a young man from Virginia named Desmond Doss passed up a possible deferment and joined the army, in spite of being a conscientious objector.
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Just when we think we’ve heard every take on Handel’s classic, along comes a new recording by Emmanuelle Haïm.
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Young Sefia is in danger. She has a strange object called a book
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Singer-songwriter Tanya Godsey’s third album, Love Lines the Last Horizon, opens with a prayer that sets the lyrical tone for the entire album.
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Owen Suskind stopped interacting with the world at the age of three.
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Gina Ochsner’s second novel is a captivating, tragicomic story about family and community relationships in a contemporary Latvian town.
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Children raised in Christian settings usually hear the Lord’s Prayer from an early age, internalizing its language and cadence without necessarily understanding its meaning.
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On March 28, 2010, Kate and Andy Grosmaire’s lives were tragically altered when their 19-year-old daughter, Ann, was shot by her boyfriend, Conor.
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Ruth has been a labor and delivery nurse at her hospital for 20 years; she’s a skilled nurse and a respected colleague.
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As the title suggests, Wilco’s latest album, Schmilco, is written with the awareness that there are many who would say that a new Wilco album is wholly unnecessary.
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If James and the Giant Peach or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory were ever your favorite stories, Oxford University Press has a gift for you.