This is interesting and provocative. Certainly the Department of English at the University of Virginia, where I took my Ph.D. in the late 1970s, was operated--by its highly acclaimed faculty, BTW, and

I don’t care if she speaks in tongues; I am concerned about the authoritarian nature of the religious community she belongs to and its commitment to ‘male headship’, i.e., the idea that men

You can expect the same crap as all the other hearings. She, like Clarence Thomas, et al, will affirm their commitment to an impartial and professional evaluation of each and

It concerns me that ACB's nomination hearing might turn into something like an Inquisition trial, more concerned with interpretations of the Bible that the Constitution.

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President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court may rouse debate over the dubious Christian practice of “speaking in tongues,” or glossalalia.

The story of how Stalin's mother used a connection with a distant relative and through her a connection to a neighbouring priest to gain admission to a seminary for her son is a good example of Henry

my "antidote" to the "Dunning school" that attacked the capability of black folks to govern themselves after the civil war was the novel FREEDOM ROAD by Howard Fast --- when I got to college and

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