Tom McEnroe’s Last Sabbath
The Sabbath had its special place in his Irish heart A man of very few words & an early riser… Never late for church,…
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Sunday school lessons
As a child, I can’t say I enjoyed going to church much. I was a busy little boy, always yearning to be on my…
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No apologies
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2011, Deborah Lewis recounts how she’s…
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On sabbatical. Or something.
Sabbatical. Professor So-And-So is on sabbatical. That’s quite special and important, isn’t it? That time away is practically holy. (What does one actually do…
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Every Saturday, I was exiled to the old country, serving time amidst plastic-covered furniture, buttocks sticking and pulling free, glooming in my grandparents’ grey…
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How the light gets in
I. I drive south from Fort Wayne—Vera Bradley, Fried chicken, Huggy Bear Motel, Pilot Gas—while the radio stations fade, one by one, into sermons…
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Sabbath for hard times
All those people out there walking the roads all those years, hardly a one of them remembering the Sabbath. Who would know what day…
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