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The Cresset Erin Dalpini reviews Toni Morrison's latest novel A Mercy.
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Imagine for a moment that it is 1682: the United States of America has yet to be organized, the laws of the land are fluid, and the slave trade is in its early stages. Somewhere at the edge of the forest in New York, there is an empty mansion with a faint glow coming from one of the rooms. ...
The Cresset "'Three generations of imbeciles is enough,' Oliver Wendell Holmes said in 1927." Gary Fincke's latest essay "Brains" looks at how our society understands mental disability.
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My mother said fish was brain food. She breaded it and fried it and told me to finish whatever she put on my plate, and for a while I expected my IQ to rise, maintaining the same belief in that promise as I had in the carrots she fed me to cure my nearsightedness.
The Cresset Poetry in The Cresset. We recently added a poetry page to The Cresset website. All of the poems from every issue will be available online.
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The Cresset Do we really owe the last thirty years of rock and roll to Kiss?
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We owe the last thirty years of rock ‘n’ roll to Kiss. I write this as someone who does not have a single Kiss record in his collection. I always considered them evildoers, those who “whet their tongues like swords,” shooting their love guns “suddenly and without fear” at the blameless. ...
The Cresset David Lott is a graduate of St. Olaf College and Luther Seminary who works as a religious book editor in Washington, DC. His new Cresset column on "Citizenship" will explore the quality of public discourse and civic life in the United States today. In the first edition, he looks at what is driving the passion behind the current health care debate.
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Whether or not they have been actively engaged in the current debate over health-care reform, almost everyone has a story about an encounter with the health-care system that in some way encapsulates their opinion. ...
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Did you like last summer’s Star Trek movie? Blackman and Utzinger aren’t sure that Gene
Roddenberry would have.
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The highly anticipated 7 May 2009 release of Star Trek, directed by J. J. Abrams and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, has received much praise by fans and critics alike. Popularly hailed as a ...
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Although President Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only nine months into his first term, Peter Meilaender expresses concerns about how our president has conducted himself on the world stage so far and offers the presidency of Abraham Lincoln as an instructive example. http://www.valpo.edu/cresset/2009/Michae
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Among the summer’s most riveting events was the disputed Iranian election and the remarkable protests that followed it. The Iranian regime, using forceful and often brutal measures, successfully put down ...
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Hal Bush invites you to drop by Whitman's Cafe and have a conversation with the Good Gray Poet... or T. S. Elliot. http://www.valpo.edu/cresset/2009/Michae
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Once again this year, I have chosen to teach the poems of Walt Whitman to my undergraduate students. My well-thumbed copy of the Norton edition of Leaves of Grass is back in the mix, ready to unravel its secrets to another generation. ...
The Cresset The Cresset's Michaelmas 2009 issue is coming soon, featuring: Hal Bush's Whitman's Cafe: A Proposal to Revive the American Conversation, Gary Fincke's Brains, and John Steven Paul's Soaring: Avian Marginalia.
The Cresset The Cresset has lost a contributor, colleague, and friend with the recent passing of Prof. John Steven Paul. JSP’s most recent essay in our pages ran in the Advent/Christmas 2007 issue. Look for his liturgical drama “Soaring” in The Cresset this fall.
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Though our word “hospitality," the welcoming of strangers, is rooted in Old French and Latin, the custom can be traced to the earliest recorded history. In the Odyssey, Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, seeking ...
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It's the end of the world, Rock n Roll style.
J. D. Buhl reviews Apocalypse Jukebox by David Janssen and Edward Whitelock.
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“The Blues had a baby and they named it Rock ‘n’ Roll.” Thus begins the popular origin story for the music that has come to dominate American culture. From the first page of their book Apocalypse Jukebox: ...
The Cresset L. Gregory Jones, the Dean of Duke Divinity School, asks how Christians and Christian institutions can maintain their sense of mission and vocation in the world today.
The Cresset Sarah Palin is back in the news again. In a recent article, Peter Meilaender asks is she represents a new kind of feminism.
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I write this on 3 November, the eve of a presidential election that, we are assured, is historic, following what one can only hope will prove to have been the longest campaign of our lifetimes. As I write, ...
