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Ann-Janine Morey
Ann-Janine Morey is associate dean of the College of Arts and Letters at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd
Ten years ago Sue Monk Kidd was a traditionally grounded Christian writer....
February 21, 2003
A Woman of Salt, by Mary Potter Engel
Midrash refers to the rabbinic tradition of interpretation that explores scripture beyond its literal meanings....
July 16, 2002
The Good Men, by Charmaine Craig
Set in 14th-century France during the time of the Inquisition against the heretics known as the Cathari, this is a story about love and obsession....
July 2, 2002
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich
In the closing lines of Louise Erdrich's new novel, Father Damien Modeste, who has been the priest at the Objibwe reservation of Little No Horse for many years, is being buried in the nearby lake....
September 25, 2001
The Blind Assassin, by Margaret Atwood
Canadian writer Margaret Atwood may be most familiar to religious audiences for her 1986 novel The Handmaid's Tale, which satirizes the religious hypocrisy of the right, the political pret...
February 27, 2001
Being Dead, by Jim Crace
On a beautiful Tuesday afternoon, Joseph and Celice, both middle-aged professors of zoology, revisit the remote beach that was the landscape of their courtship and first passion....
October 24, 2000
Hugging the middle
John Updike and Religion: The Sense of the Sacred and the Motions of Grace, edited by James Yerkes...
May 23, 2000
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