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Recently I revisited a famous antiquarian bookshop. Marks & Co. closed decades ago, but it lives on in Helene Hanff’s memoir “84, Charing Cross Road” and its companion 1987 film starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins. My library had both the book and the DVD, so I spent an evening traveling back in time to 1950s London
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Does religion make people happier? As writer and university teacher Stephen Cranney reported in 2024, the studies and literature on the connections of health, well-being, and religious practice are vast and demonstrate overwhelmingly that those active in a faith are generally happier than non-believers or those not involved in a religious community. Many articles on this topic
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During a recent move, I came across a copy of a 2021 letter I’d sent to my grandchildren. According to their parents, my older grandkids, then roughly ages eight to 16, were troubled and confused by the restrictions of the Covid pandemic and the bitter political divisions evident in the 2020 presidential race. In the
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“Failure is one of God’s educators,” writes William George Jordan in his 1898 book, “The Majesty of Calmness.” I agree, but with this exception: You actually must sit in that classroom, eyes and ears open, notebook at the ready. Too often politicians and many other Americans are asleep or cutting class during that lesson. Which
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