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“It’s trash, frankly.” So said the seasoned professor of German literature at the first Zoom meeting of the Catholic reading group I facilitated. She wasn’t the only one, either. Others were nicer about it, but it was clear that even the most open-minded of those who had assembled were being open-minded about a book they thought was pretty bad.


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A typo can flip the script:Theist –> Atheist.Just like that—God? Gone. Agnostic?Lose the “a,”suddenlyyou know everything. Moral?Oops—Now you’re amoral. A tap too quick,A tiny space misplaced,and the whole cosmos misfires. So maybe—read andtreadmore carefully.


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“We have orders of deportation,” said a volunteer in a raised voice, posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent and pounding on the sanctuary door. “What you’re doing is harboring.” Inside the sanctuary, hundreds of trainees blocked the large wooden double doors. One called out, “We’re exercising our First Amendment right to freedom of worship.”


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