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Nov. 7, 1991, was a Thursday; it was my fourth day working as an investigative reporter for Phoenix New Times. I had known my boss — the editor and co-owner of the newspaper, Michael Lacey — for a couple of years and we were still making the transition from a friendly peer relationship to an employer-employee one.
"Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos -- novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes -- you are beyond doubt the strangest?" -Walker Percy Black holes. You've all heard them before, and you can visualize them pretty easily. How so? Start by thinking about the Earth.
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If contemplation and criticism can lead to imitation, then writing about the literary Christian left of the last century might help establish a literary Christian left for this century.
Some Christians turn to the Bible or hagiographies for saintly inspiration.