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Of Names
BY ELIZA BROADBENT I go by my middle name. Consequently, I spent the first day of each class throughout my academic life timidly interrupting the rapid-fire of name listing to say that I actually go by a completely different name than the one on your roster, which is actually my middle name, which, yes, I’m…
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Prayer Pennies
BY KALLI ABBOTT I turned the penny over a couple times in my hand before putting it in the back of my pink-and-gold sneaker. The penny was darkened from age, and I could see the “1972” next to Lincoln’s head. Maybe it had been in the shoe of another ten-year-old girl at some point. I…
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Until the WristwatchIs Taken from the Wrist
Five years before my grandpa died, an employee at theOregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crashed theirtanker truck of approximately 11,000 live Chinook salmoninto a power pole in Eugene, Oregon. When the truck rolled,and the shocked, slippery cargo flew into the Mackenzie RiverHighway—their permanently astonished expressions, for once,appropriate to the occasion—the interstate was sheathed in…
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Colby Dickinson’s Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought
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Jan Whitt’s The Redemption of Narrative: Terry Tempest Williams and Her Vision of the West
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“The Jolly Corner”: Henry James’s Spiritual Triptych