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The Defaming of Mrs. O’Leary and Her Cow An Apology Long Overdue, and a Question Science Has Not Finished Asking By B. James Wilson We owe Catherine O’Leary and her cow an apology. For more than a century, the story was fixed in the American imagination with the permanence of myth: an Irish immigrant woman,…
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The Book Lady Of all the ways that Dolly Parton will be remembered, music legend, celebrity icon, or Queen of Country, the title she most enjoyed was the “Book Lady.” Dolly Parton died Tuesday in Nashville after a brief battle with cancer. She was 80. The rhinestones, the wigs and the voice that could shatter…
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The Bible is not by any means a shallow book, yet most of us encounter only its surface. Between the familiar passages and the Sunday morning sermon lies a deeper conversation; one that few preachers or teachers are willing to have, and fewer congregations are prepared to hear. It runs beneath the well-worn verses like…