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Of Christmas Parades and Commonplace Joys0
The first Saturday of December once again brought joy to my small hometown. This is the day when the annual Christmas parade brings several thousand locals to sidewalks in the center of town to watch, laugh, and shout with boisterous pride as floats, dancers, and marching bands wind their way through the cold streets. As
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Looking for Beauty on Our Way to the Manger0
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This Thanksgiving, 36 members of my family – my children and grandchildren, a nephew and his wife, and an in-law still raw from the recent death of her husband – gathered in the kitchen and dining room of my daughter’s house. Following the mealtime blessing, we took turns expressing what we were thankful for, from
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Finding Freedom in a World of Chains1
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Chain, chain, chain (Chain, chain, chain) Chain of fools So ran the chorus to Aretha Franklin’s 1967 hit song “Chain of Fools.” One hundred twenty years earlier, the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels proclaimed: “Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” The chains of Franklin’s song
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Bringing Light to the Asylum0
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Back in the 1980s, writer Florence King began her essay “Democrazy” by recounting a scene from the 1946 Japanese war trials. At one point, the former propaganda minister, Shumei Okawa, leaped to his feet and cried out: “I hate United States! It is democrazy!” That unintended pun is the theme for King’s piece, which appears
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