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Suffering, Hope--and Cannibals!

Suffering, Hope–and Cannibals!

If you’ve read my blog more than two or three times, you already know how delighted I am by religious literature, especially religious literature that I haven’t come across before. Nothing reminds me that Christianity isn’t just a twenty-first-century American phenomenon like discovering a pie

10.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz

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Screwtape on Prefrosh and Freshmen

Screwtape on Prefrosh and Freshmen

This was posted last year around prefrosh weekend, but seemed equally applicable to freshmen who have just come on campus. Enjoy! - The editors. My dear Wigglesworm, It has come to my attention that your charge has been admitted to Harvard, and that you are inordinately proud of this devel

09.8.2010| Featured, The Fish Tank | Judith Huang

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How not to be Miss Clack

How not to be Miss Clack

Recently I’ve been reading The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins, which is an excellent book and one of the first detective stories ever. Much could be written on it, but my attention was drawn to one Miss Clack, a minor character who provides a bit of necessary comic relief through her ludicrous actio

07.29.2010| The Fish Tank | Anne L. Goetz

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Plan A: Love, not Law

Plan A: Love, not Law

1. I AM the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. 2. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneat

07.17.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang

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Oedipus' Eyes

Oedipus’ Eyes

When I was about fifteen, I wrote an essay entitled “The gods are unjust” about Oedipus Rex, the ancient play by Sophocles – it is one of the great Greek Tragedies, replete with chorus and tragic hero. It was my first tragedy. Oedipus was condemned by Apollo’s prophecy, related by an oracle,

06.28.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang

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Out of these Woods do not Desire

Out of these Woods do not Desire

The following is a true report of the happenings of 24th June 2010 in Central Park, Rochester, Minnesota, in my interactions with various personages of the Words Players, a very young but accomplished group of players who make it their business to put on the works of William Shakespeare and other ex

06.26.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang

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A Prayer for Prudence

A Prayer for Prudence

The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is how to love, and be loved in return - The Sitar that Speaks the Truth, Moulin Rouge In Romans 12:3, Paul calls us to look at ourselves with sober judgment – to think truthfully and honestly about who we are. Then he calls to love one another, and specifi

06.18.2010| The Fish Tank | Judith Huang

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