March 14, 2016

'Between the World and Me,' by Ta-Nehisi Coates

'Agents of Empire,' by Noel Malcolm

A convergence of belief and fact; this is the key to two new films about Jesus.

…moved over the face of the waters. And in reading this,the awareness that, more than once,God has turned my head in his direction,yet I haven’t seen the gesture for what it is. The world charges and is charged with a white-hot flame.I might turn away, but each morning my head is t

“He saved others; let him save himself”

This is not the first tangle between popes and politicians.

The U.N. Children’s Fund found that female genital cutting is more widespread than once thought.