Tuesday, January 30, 2018

"I Just Do Favors For Friends": Eight Million Ways to Die

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A reader has asked me what I think of Lawrence Block , especially his Matthew Scudder novels. I'm always glad to get suggestions of t...
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Sunday, January 28, 2018

A New Teaching—With Authority: A Sermon for Epiphany 4, 2018

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[ Delivered at St. Bartholomew’s Church, January 28, 2018 ] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. T...
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Saturday, January 27, 2018

'Salem's Lot: A Revisit

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It's a long time since I read 'Salem's Lot , Stephen King's 1975 second novel. When I read it in my early teens, I loved i...
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Monday, January 22, 2018

"The Power to Hurt is a Kind of Wealth”: Naomi Alderman's The Power

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"Gender is a Shell Game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not, Tap on it and it's hol...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

The Paper Chase: Not Prince Hamlet

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When I was a boy, I discovered my profession in stages. The first was the television series The Paper Chase , in which the tyrannical (or...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Can Anything Good Come Out Of Nazareth?: A Sermon on John 1: 43-51

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[Delivered at St. Bartholomew's Church, NYC, January 14, 2018] In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Am...
Wednesday, January 10, 2018

"I know my hats."

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So, many years ago I bought myself a first-class chocolate brown Dobbs fedora , which I generally wear unless the weather is so cold I nee...