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Annie Dillard reminds us that the imagination, properly wed to reason, can be transfigurative and redeeming.
Why have some prominent Black writers embraced nineteenth-century ideas about interracial partnerships?
Clifford Thompson
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"My time at Orbis Books was centered on the belief that theology could be a force, a source of life, and a resource in the struggle for a better world."
"And yet, to recall Fanny’s past now, in her own bright present, here in her pretty, pastel condo by the sea, was to acknowledge, surely, that time heals."
Religious belief has migrated away from public institutional life and toward the interior, the personal, the chosen.