Is there a more remarkable spiritual writer today than Kathleen Norris And how full of paradoxes she is quot containing multitudes quot to take a leaf from Walt Whitman Coming from what she calls a quot thoroughly Protestant background quot her meditations have been both widely read and grea
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On Mother Teresa and Lady Di: From October 4, 1997
In These Pages: From October 4, 1997
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A Disconcerting Thing: From October 4, 1997
John Updike’s reflection on faith and writing upon his reception of America’s Campion Medal in 1997.
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Remembering the unlikely friendship between Princess Diana and Mother Teresa
In the wake of her death, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, one of the holiest women of our time, was reduced to a walk-on in the life of the Princess of Wales.
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Health Care Reform—Not a Dead Issue
Michael S. Dukakis delivered this address to the Kenna Club at Santa Clara University in California on Feb. 28, 1997.
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The Metaphysics of Baseball: From April 4, 1992
The “national pastime” has occasioned more intellectual rumination than any other athletic endeavor in American—perhaps even world—history. Intellectuals and sports writers have turned the metaphysical implications of the game into something of a cottage industry.
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The Church and the Fiction Writer: From March 30, 1957
From 1957, a classic essay by Flannery O’Connor, who died 50 years ago on Sunday.
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Meeting Graham Greene: From July 24, 1948
The novelist had a driving conviction that ran roughshod over our weak-kneed answers.