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… I published a book entitled Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile. Simultaneously … which traditional Christianity has organized itself has become inoperative. The supernatural, external deity who lives … that five loaves of bread could feed 5000 people. He was also capable of performing other miracles. He could give …

… the slow popping of the crab boats, long and white, as they complete a pass and turn for new lines. He’s frightened … to set the trees on fire. He ducks behind a box bush and studies the three blue doors. He tries to imagine what’s behind … done Mr. McHugh tries each strap and is satisfied, and he points out the screen door and toward the creek. They make …

… she said. Retiring, I learned, was a nice way of saying decommissioning, and decommissioning was a nice way of saying … aboard up a small ladder as some of the ground crew steadied the craft. A dozen more men held ropes attached to the … was slow and subtle. St. John worked huge, flat-foot pedals and a large wooden wheel alongside his seat, to raise …

… vital and vigorous part in every aspect of the life of his community, is the available figure. His ardent officiousness … more than any other is responsible for lifting Puritan studies to a position of pre-eminence in American … at one point as a “nauseous human being,” although Miller also recognized him as “the greatest intellectual in …

… he said, keeping his voice soft and calm. Lately he’d become an expert at this. It was as if he were willing himself … understand his anger. When one of the Church of Christ ladies had approached him holding out a bookmark with Jesus’s … he knew parts of it by heart. Every now and then, he might also sneak his mother’s Bible off the shelf and read aloud a …