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Cruelty, and rationalizations for it, have been with us throughout history and seem to have no boundaries. Even in the Old Testament, we find instances of torture and enslavement. God Himself warns His people against throwing their children into the fire as sacrificial offerings to false deities. The passage of…

Sinclair Lewis had a talent for holding up a mirror to society. His title character George Babbitt is easily recognizable: materialistic, pompous, blustery, social-climbing, self-serving and self-aggrandizing. He rationalizes his way through life on the pretext that what’s good for Babbitt is good for the U.S.A. But reader, beware! As…

I can’t decide what I liked more about this novel – the narration or the characters. The Winter Soldier drew me into a theatre of World War I that I knew little about. Lucius Krzelewski, a promising medical student from a wealthy Polish family, finds himself back in kindergarten when…

The Seven-Day Resurrection is now on sale at all major book retailers. Here are some early comments from reviewers: “Many authors have written stories about coming back from the dead, but they don’t tell the story with this much artistry. The story’s heart is in the right place, and the…

When I ran across this book in a used bookstore, I suddenly realized that although I’d heard of the Dreyfus affair, I had no idea what it was. So I decided to fill that gap in my education. I’m glad I did. Bredin’s account, published in France in 1983 and…

Whether it’s fact or fiction, nothing makes a story more appealing to me than the characters. I like to know how other people see the world. How other people see them. What motivates them. What they expect from life, and how they react to its joys and disappointments. Even such…

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Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s…