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October 30, 2017

Vol. 217 / No. 10

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Serenity (Photography by Ricky Staub)
Faith Faith in Focus
Ricky StaubOctober 19, 2017

There’s a big difference between engagement and encounter.

Debaters rattle off arguments at a blistering pace, sometimes more than 300 words per minute. (image by istock.)
Arts & Culture Ideas
Jack McCordickSeptember 26, 2017

300 Words a Minute, and Going Nowhere: High School Debate Today.

Tom Petty performs at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Arts & Culture Ideas
Bill McGarveyOctober 04, 2017

Tom Petty died on Monday at age 66, and anyone who knows me well understands that it is a personal loss.

Grace Paley sits beside a pile of books in her home in Thetford Hill, Vt., April 9, 2003 (AP Photo/Toby Talbot).
Arts & Culture Books

Paley knew by instinct what science now confirms: the role reading plays in developing empathy for the other.

Arts & Culture Books
Gregory HillisSeptember 11, 2017

A new introduction could plant seeds in children that will perhaps flower later in life.

Sir Salman Rushdie in New York City, Aug. 21, 2015 (Writer Pictures via AP Images)
Arts & Culture Books
Randy BoyagodaSeptember 29, 2017

Rushdie is a writer keen to take on big, messy matters—and few are bigger or messier these days than American life at home and abroad.

Arts & Culture Books
Thomas RzeznikSeptember 29, 2017

Barton Cross, a Navy serviceman, was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942. Then his brothers tried to get him back.