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Jeff Minick

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  • A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own

    A Gift to the World: Seeking Not Our Own4

    A teacher who was also a poet once explained to me the meaning of a “found poem.” It’s a poem that takes its words and lines from sources outside the poet: newspaper headlines, advertisements, the outdoor message boards found in front of churches, an overheard conversation, even graffiti. Just this morning, I came across a

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  • A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness

    A Counterpunch to the Assault on Manliness9

    On a mid-October visit with my daughter and her family, my son-in-law began recounting stories from a former construction job. He spoke of end-of-day contests—monkey-bar style races, for example, in which construction workers would race across the trusses of a building using hammers instead of the hands, which lasted until one guy slipped and concussed

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  • The Three Stooges Make a Comeback

    The Three Stooges Make a Comeback6

    “The rewards for being sane are not many, but knowing what’s funny is one of them.” Thus spoke the late novelist Kingsley Amis through a character in his work, Stanley and the Women. Whether I am sane may be a point of contention, especially since the hammer blows from the political and cultural disasters of

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  • Making the Most Out of Our Winter of Discontent

    Making the Most Out of Our Winter of Discontent0

    In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the Witch casts an evil spell over Narnia, making it a cold and barren land, locked in snow and ice where it’s “always winter but never Christmas.” Now, there’s a chilling thought. It’s still early October and last night the mercury dropped into the

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