"The holy is at the origins of everything that exists," says the author of the prize-winning novels "Gilead" and "Home."
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson Extended Interview
Read more of Bob Abernethy's interview with novelist Marilynne Robinson.
Posted: Sep 18th, 2009 Comments: 2 Views: 1,877
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September 18, 2009: HOME by Marilynne Robinson
Read an excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's latest novel "Home."
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September 18, 2009: Marilynne Robinson: The Novelist as Theologian
Marilynne Robinson's Calvinist Protestantism imbues her with a fierce political liberalism grounded in Scripture and informs the respect with which she describes small movements of character and conversation.
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September 18, 2009: Seek My Face
In the words of a new translation of Psalm 27, the psalm most associated with the Jewish High Holidays, "Your face, God, is what I constantly search for."
Posted: Sep 17th, 2009 Comments: 3 Views: 1,278
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May 22, 2009: Homage and Commemoration
At the memorial for the American dead of Vietnam, writes Lorrie Goldensohn, we meet as a community and are made to see that "we are always at one with the living and the dead."
Posted: May 22nd, 2009 Comments: 1 Views: 1,398
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The prolific and best-selling author Jodi Picoult writes "ethical thrillers" about contentious issues such as the death penalty, organ donation, euthanasia, sexual abuse, date rape, teen suicide, and school shootings.
Posted: Apr 24th, 2009 Comments: 14 Views: 11,470
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April 7, 2009: On Easter and Updike
An unstated Easter hope for eternal life runs through writer John Updike's work, from his famous early poem "Seven Stanzas at Easter" to "Endpoint," his final collection of poetry, published just a few months after his death.
Posted: Apr 7th, 2009 Comments: 2 Views: 7,061
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March 20, 2009: Gerard Manley Hopkins
A new biography of this Christ-haunted Victorian poet and Jesuit priest explores his relationship with the priesthood and explains the theological impulses that give his poems their meaning.
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February 20, 2009: Sholem Aleichem
It is the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Yiddish writer whose characters argue with God about life's tragedies and disillusionments and whose stories of faith in the midst of flux have universal appeal.
Posted: Feb 20th, 2009 Comments: 9 Views: 6,229
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