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Physician, Heal Thyself

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An enormous irony shadows us throughout life: our capacity, our willingness even, to talk one line and live another — like the policeman caught stealing, the lawyer who breaks the law.

In Paul Tillich’s Seminar

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In the heyday of psychoanalytic reductionism, we were entranced with our ability to use psychiatric labels, to explain everything as the result of certain somethings.

On “Liberation Theology”

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A poor woman once told me that the Church “belongs” to her kind of people, not to them, the rich, the quite comfortable — appearances notwithstanding.

Thomas Hardy, the Populist

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When Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure was published, Victorian England was hardly ready to accept that novel’s story of a love affair between cousins.

William Carlos Williams: A Doctor’s Faith, a Poet’s Faith

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Williams knew how bored, self-centered, and self-indulgent the rich can be, and how desperately confused, vulnerable, and self-lacerating the poor often are.

Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr was the most extraordinary of preachers — a powerfully compelling delivery, all extemporaneous. As a teacher he called upon history and politics with great ease.

Struggling With Today’s Evils

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Elderly folks I once knew were proud of their indifference to the urban American world and its culture, its values and habits, of which they occasionally heard from their children.

Don’t Worry, Dad

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To be a father is to love the children enough to give them countless kisses and boosts, examples and assistance; but also love them enough to stumble with them, before them, on their account.

The Spiritual Life of Children — Part III

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In my field-work I found people of stoic dignity, often enough making do rather shrewdly, patiently, and thoughtfully against great odds.

Fra Angelica

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Rembrant's Old Ones

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The Invisible Man

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Uniforms

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Endo's Silence

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The Bluest Eye

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The Heart of the Matter

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The Power & the Glory

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The First & the Last

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Moral Smugness

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Gluttony

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Lust

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Anger

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Sloth

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Covetousness

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Envy

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Pride

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On Sex Education for the Young

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On Birth Control

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Talk Shows

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Remembering Erik H. Erikson

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Ralph Ellison's Angle of Vision

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Remembering Christopher Lasch

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On Divorce

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Gang Members: Their Street Education

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Remembering Walker Percy

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A Last Conversation with Anna Freud

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Not Only a Disease

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Moral Anarchy, Moral Necessity

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Life & Death

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Vulnerability

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The Underclass, Part VI: What Is to Be Done?

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The Underclass, Part V: Children & Violence

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The Underclass, Part IV: Schools & Mentors

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The Underclass, Part III: Drugs

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The Underclass, Part II: Widespread Teenage Pregnancy

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The So-Called Underclass, Part I

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The Day After Inauguration

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Teaching Fourth Grade

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Memories of 1964

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What Do Our Children Need?

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Affirming the Reality of the Spiritual

William D. Miller

Review of Harvard Diary by Robert Coles

Raymond Carver's Heart & Soul

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Raymond Carver's Death

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Raymond Carver's Dying Chekhov

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The Legalization of Drugs

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Preachers and Politics

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Sinner Swaggart & Our Smugness

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A Testing from God

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Children and Media Violence

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Teaching and Learning, Strutting and Conniving

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The Secular Mind IV: Relativism

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The Secular Mind III: Reductionism

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The Secular Mind II: Positivism

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The Secular Mind I: Determinism

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Two Tolstoy Stories

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Tolstoy's Resurrection

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Tolstoy's Confession

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Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

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On Forgiveness

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Voluntary Poverty

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