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Job scrapes for answers (Job 1:1, 2:1-10)
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The Trial of God, Elie Wiesel’s masterly and moving play on the problem of evil, is set in a Ukrainian village in the year 1649, in the aftermath of a pogrom.
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The monk and the machine
Pete Hegseth’s war horse
The inclusivity trap
Faith formed in correspondence
