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In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving...

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"We must begin our story of Jesus by granting him permission to surprise us endlessly...." ---from the Introduction Jesus of Galilee taught through stories, which even today contain the power to startle us out of our prejudices and preconceptions. Now Father Andrew M. Greeley, one of America's most beloved storytellers, examines the parables told by Jesus in search of a fuller understanding of the man and his message. This engaging and informal...

"What are you giving up for Lent'" we are asked. Our minds begin to whirl:Chocolate' Designer coffee' Social media'Forty days later, some feel disappointed in their efforts (it was a limited-time blend...), some feel surprised by their success (didn't even miss it...), but perhaps precious few feel spiritually renewed. Can such fasts alone truly prepare us to celebrate Easter' Or any other chosen time of reflection during the year' Or could it be...