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A look at religion as it’s experienced every day; an inspiring new children’s book; and a tribute to those Public Garden ducks
By Nina MacLaughlin Globe Correspondent,Updated April 22, 2021, 4:38 p.m.
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Healing spirits
A woman named Donna Haskins tells a young man in Boston that he’d play basketball again, despite a hip surgery that had ended his college sports career. Her words have more power than the young man originally believes possible. Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s layered and insightful new book, “Take Back What the Devil Stole: An African American Prophet’s Encounters in the Spirit World” (Columbia University) looks at religion as it’s experienced not in chapels, churches, temples, or mosques, but in the everyday world and individual bodies of Black women in Boston. Woodbine writes of Haskins’s awareness of and experience with “an-other dimension, a nonmaterial world,� ....

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