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A world of images is offered by Christ — better, dramatized by him — images of waiting, listening, observing, debating, healing, conveying hope and humor, telling stories that end with a question lodged like a…

Translation not only plays its important traditional role as the means that allows us access to literature  originally written in one of the countless languages we cannot read, but it also represents a concrete literary…

Gratitude for the 11 people who’ve been reading, writing, and sharing the past two months in the online “Be in Love with Yr Life” Class.

My friends, the Burkempers, are vacationing at Palm Coast, and Liz sent me this photograph.

On Robert Neer, Napalm: An American Biography (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) 1. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12…

Today I saw Puck Vlaskamp play her last tennis matches as an undergraduate at Maryville University.  She has given her all to her studies and her sport, and has touched and inspired many of us…

I randomly pull books off of my shelves and turn to a page to see what’s there. Today I found the following in Dorothee Soelle’s Against the Wind: Memoir of a Radical Christian (she was…

I have 286 chapters in an almost finished first draft of a manuscript entitled, Our Heroic and Ceaseless 24/7 Struggle against Tsuris.

Hedy Wachenheimer Evening Before Leaving Germany May 17, 1939 Hedy Epstein Speaking against Forced Deportations of Haitians, 1992 Hedy Leaving St. Louis to Join the Gaza Freedom Flotilla June 20, 2011 Hedy Epstein on Board…