In his debut collection of stories, Lucas Smith depicts people of faith under challenging circumstances ranging from the historical to the contemporary and futuristic. A vaccine dissenter retreats to a homeless encampment; a Catholic survivor […]
Some ten years ago, I was an Irish dance mom. Our girls had the wigs, the dresses, the spray tans; we traveled all over the Midwest for competitions. I used to tell them that if […]
Early in Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel of Tudor England, a young Thomas Cromwell is made to witness the gleeful burning of an accused heretic. A mother figure in the crowd brings the […]
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