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Sin Aboundeth

At the center of financial corruption are practices almost everybody would recognize as wicked. In the worst parts of the clergy, too, there are concentric circles of wrongdoing Continue Reading »

Stealing Pears

Iniquity, O Lord, can be delicious:always in season, always tender, sweet,blushing, and aromatic. Not capriciousit always hangs low, begging us to eat.One night, I stripped a neighbor’s tree of pears—not grade A pears, but seconds grown for swine—taking them not because the fruit was . . . . Continue Reading »

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