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A SOLDIER'S LEGACY

Faith born on the killing fields

Robert Ostermann

Taking the long view, a religious conversion must be understood as an invisible event. The action happens off-stage, behind the scenes; spectators observe only the conclusion. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter and exit Hamlet without a personal history: influential figures in the tapestry but ciphers just the same.Many articulate converts have tried to describe their convers (...)


 

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Robert Ostermann has written for a variety of journals, including U.S. Catholic, America, and The Critic. He lives in Tempe, Arizona.

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