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Poetry

Poem | Otter

“Winters in dark surf have given me / the silhouette of a wave rising / or just-spent, and the cold ocean / utters me like a whisper”
By Michael Cadnum
April 13, 2018
Poetry

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Religion

Get Rid of the Clergy

We should distinguish between the sacrament of orders, which we still need, and the clerical state, which we would be better off without
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The Silicon Valley entrepreneurs currently waging a war on death should rethink their project
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