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August 14, 2009

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Those who follow my Twitter stream know that I have been working on a play. I started on it toward the end of August, 2008, writing a variety of scenes in no particular order or overall understanding of just what the play was going to be about. I had lots of ideas, so I tried [...]

June 4, 2009

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Reading the speech Obama gave this morning in Cairo was like reading all of complex, elusive, and often conflicting ideas that I have had for quite a while about the relationships among Christians, Muslims, and Jews. How refreshing to hear them coming from a president of the United States and not only whispered by friends [...]

July 28, 2008

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Today on Morning Edition Jennifer Ludden told the story of Billings, Montana, resident Rob Hunter, who while “[d]riving to work one dark morning in February . . . caught an NPR story about an Iraqi refugee struggling to find work in Florida. The young man, identified as Bahjat, had endured death threats and a car [...]