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Harvard Diary by Robert Coles

Physician, Heal Thyself
November 1986An 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.
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In Paul Tillich’s Seminar
October 1986In the heyday of psychoanalytic reductionism, we were entranced with our ability to use psychiatric labels, to explain everything as the result of certain somethings.
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On “Liberation Theology”
September 1986A poor woman once told me that the Church “belongs” to her kind of people, not to them, the rich, the quite comfortable — appearances notwithstanding.
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Thomas Hardy, the Populist
July August 1986When 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.
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William Carlos Williams: A Doctor’s Faith, a Poet’s Faith
June 1986Williams knew how bored, self-centered, and self-indulgent the rich can be, and how desperately confused, vulnerable, and self-lacerating the poor often are.
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Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr
May 1986Niebuhr was the most extraordinary of preachers — a powerfully compelling delivery, all extemporaneous. As a teacher he called upon history and politics with great ease.
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Struggling With Today’s Evils
April 1986Elderly 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.
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Don’t Worry, Dad
March 1986To 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.
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The Spiritual Life of Children — Part III
January-February 1986In my field-work I found people of stoic dignity, often enough making do rather shrewdly, patiently, and thoughtfully against great odds.
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Affirming the Reality of the Spiritual
December 1988Review of Harvard Diary by Robert Coles
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