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America’s Greatest Explorer

From the March 2024 Print Edition

On July 4, 1776, as several dozen sweating American colonists sat in the stuffy Pennsylvania State House wondering what would befall them for having dared to rebel against their king, a lone, hungry Spanish priest lay in the windswept stone plaza of a Hopi village wondering what would befall him for . . . . Continue Reading »

Redeeming Places

From the June/July 2012 Print Edition

Where Mortals Dwell: A Christian View of Place for Today by craig g. bartholomew baker, 384 pages, $29.99 The ability to “escape from place” is profoundly entrenched in America’s national narrative—and in millions of personal narratives—as a tremendous blessing, if not a right. . . . . Continue Reading »