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Kathleen L. Housley
Kathleen L. Housley is author of two books of poetry and nine nonfiction works, among them The Scientific World of Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer: The Entanglement of Science, Religion, and Politics in Nazi Germany.
Perfect Sense
There is a balm in Gilead to make the wounded whole.
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Interrogation
Corporal Knobloch, was it you who smuggled letters out of prison from Bonhoeffer to a friend? ...
Built on failure: The value of what we cant comprehend
In science, when negative data isn’t reported, the result is a silence that silences. A life-saving drug or a new discovery may be missed.
Cold comfort
The way Herod liked to listen to John the Baptist,summoning him from his cell for private chatsbut could make no sense of what he said; the way...
Self-portrait
After four years, Michelangelo has reached the end,and now Jonah, whom he has reserved for last,dangles his bare feet over the Sistine’s void,...
Michelangelo and the angels
The trouble is the halo. He’s never dissected one,prying it open with a blade under cover of nightto determine its component parts: seeking with his...
The Sistine Chapel
On the scaffold twenty meters uptracing her head in the damp plaster,Michelangelo knows it’s going to takemore than a breath to make Adam drop...
Black and white
Grace Matters: A True Story of Race, Friendship, and Faith in the Heart of the South.By Chris P. Rice. Jossey-Bass, 303 pp., $22.95....
Reconciling Science and Religion, by Peter J. Bowler
In an 1893 essay on Darwin's The Origin of Species T. H....
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An Uncommon Friendship
As Bernat rosnar and Frederic C. Tubach become acquainted, they learn something about each other that challenges their growing friendship....
Supernatural beings: Redefining faith, love and hope
Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic, by Martha Beck...
Doña Inés vs. Oblivion, by Ana Teresa Torres, translated by Gregory Rabassa
Winner of the 1998 Pegasus Prize for Literature, this novel is both a family saga and a fictionalized account of the history of Venezuela, focusing on the relentless conflict between races and clas...
How objective is science?
Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction, by Michael Ruse...