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My Back Pages: Iftar with the DuPage Republicans

September 11, 2017 · by · in Essay · 1 Comment

(A version of this appeared in The National, Abu Dhabi, in September 2009. It is not longer extant and their site, so I have posted it here). In the years following the attacks of September 11, 2001, enthusiasm for interfaith iftar events swept America’s liberal Christians. When I was studying theology, an interfaith iftar – […]

My Back Pages: The Guy Who Came Into the Cold

August 17, 2017 · by · in Essay · Leave a comment

(I wrote this for The National in Abu Dhabi in February, 2009. It is no longer extant on their site, so I am posting it here) Just over a hundred years ago my father’s family settled in the town of Luck in northern Wisconsin.  Winter descends there in October or November and lingers until April […]