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Heart-Warming Human Interest Stories for the Holidays

A few of our favorites to share with our readers this holiday season

During the holiday season, it’s not uncommon for an influx of human-interest stories demonstrating the good in humankind to circulate around the Internet. These stories touch our hearts deeply. They teach us the meaning of being better and more generous … Continue reading

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Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel on aging, Christianity and the mysteries of life and death

There’s too much to praise in Marilynne Robinson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. Such luminous beauty and spiritual verve, as always sought but rarely seen, rewards the reader who opens this story based in Gilead, a small, fictional town in Iowa. A novel … Continue reading

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