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...Southland depicted a lynching--that delighted and jarred audiences. The National Medal of Arts recipient was equally ardent about the world in which her art was received. She founded a school in impoverished East St. Louis, Ill. In Haiti, where she had a home, she trained as a voodoo priest and grew apricots and avocados in a lush oasis that she opened to the public. At 82, she went on a 47-day hunger strike to protest the U.S.'s forced repatriation of Haitian refugees. "My job," she said, "is to create a useful legacy...
...WRITTEN MAGIC REALISM AND SCIENCE FICTION AND NOW A THRILLER. Part of my setting up shop was the idea that I should produce a book a year--that this was a better way to run being a writer than to think of yourself as a kind of a priest-prophet, the way American writers like Norman Mailer--the esteemed Norman Mailer--did. Now, with modern medicine, and modern Protestant lifestyle, I've lived long enough that the books keep coming--time to write a novel, time to write a novel. So you look for things that will amuse...
Harvard’s welcoming religious communities are also a nice change from the hostility shown by religious communities elsewhere. This past Sunday, the priest at St. Paul’s, Harvard’s Catholic church, delivered a homily exhorting Catholics to love everyone—short, tall, white, black, gay, and straight—because God loves everyone. While he did not address whether being gay is a sin, the priest’s homily conveys acceptance towards gays that is unfortunately absent from many Christian communities around the country...
...Rhythm Method Remains "Condom fight: the Vatican strikes back" [May 8] reported that the Roman Catholic Church is not changing its position and will not condone condom use under any circumstances. As a former Catholic, I rue the day when I confessed to a priest that I used birth control after having my fifth baby. That man said I was sinning and read the riot act to me. He had a lot of nerve! The church's policy against artificial contraception is nothing short of medieval. Mary Thomas Garden Grove, California, U.S. The Fruits of Colonialism Re "Exit strategies...
...more cunning adversaries. But he is fearless, deadly with a blade and, beneath his armored persona, stubbornly loyal. Those qualities animate the newly translated Purity of Blood. Alatriste is hired to help an aging father free his daughter, a nun, from the clutches of a well-connected priest who is using the convent as his private seraglio. The old man and his family have a secret: as Christian descendants of a converted Jew in anti-Semitic times, they lack "purity of blood" and soon become targets of the Inquisition. Alatriste too comes under suspicion, and the blood, pure and otherwise...