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10 Surprising Truths about Jesus (You Won’t Hear in Church) July 15, 2020 Tom Rapsas V & A Museum, photo via Mark Morgan from Trinidad & Wikimedia Commons Once a year, I’ll pick up a new book about Jesus in search of fresh insights on the man and his mission. My personal preference is that these books not be tied to any specific dogma or religion, but that they explore the many mysteries and myths that surround Jesus and his life. I found just such a book in  Jesus, the Human Face of God by scholar Jay Parini. The author identifies himself as a Christian and a regular churchgoer, so he ...

It's time to break out of our rooms -- and travel (opinion) CNN 2 hrs ago By Jay Parini © DAVID GANNON/AFP/AFP via Getty Images People pose for a selfie on the upper deck of a ferry from the port of Piraeus in Athens to the Island of Mykonos, Greece, stopping here at Siros Island on October 4, 2020. (Photo by David GANNON / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GANNON/AFP via Getty Images) With the pandemic easing in the US, there's a pent-up wish to break out of the rooms we've occupied for the past 14 months or so. Now, much of Europe -- long a primary destination for American travelers...

Illustration by David Johnson Excerpts from “A Drumlin Woodchuck,” “Into My Own,”  “Acquainted with the Night,” “The Most of It,”  “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and in its entirety, “The Aim Was Song,” from the book THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST  edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1928, 1934, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, copyright © 1936, 1942, 1951, 1956, 1962 by Robert Frost, copyright © 1970 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved.   It’s not often that a poe...

Chris Bohjalian If you answered, "A three-line poem written with five, seven and five syllables per line," you'd be correct, but only as defined by the broad and somewhat arbitrary interpretation of Japanese literature that most of us were taught in elementary school. In fact, there's much more pleasure to be had in writing haiku than simply counting and dividing up syllables. As a longtime lover and occasional practitioner of haiku — and something of a haiku truther — this writer feels obliged to provide a more expansive definition than the red...