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A Gospel page from the Nunnaminster Book
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Thomas W. Nason, illustration for Donald Hall’s Here at Eagle Pond (1990).
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Re-upping from a year ago today: Why I don’t keep track of how many books I read.
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Do yourself a favor and listen to the incomparable Ella sing “What Are You Doing On New Year’s Eve?”
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Martin Van Buren “proceeded swiftly from senator to secretary of state, vice president and president. And though he failed to win a second term, [James M. Bradley says, ‘He built and designed the party system that defined how politics was practiced and power wielded in the United States.’ We are living in the world Van Buren created.” Good to know whom to blame.