On the first weekend of every September, before cold winds off the Great Lakes turn the air chilly, the Plymouth Fall Festival takes place along Main Street in my hometown of Plymouth, Michigan.
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Julie Polter 11-01-2003
Flannery O'Connor was a master short-story writer, dark humorist, and astute cultural observer.
Robin Fillmore 11-01-2003
When Richard Danielpour composed An American Requiem in September 2000, he had no idea it would be presented to a nation experiencing a battlefront on its own soil.
Danny Duncan Collum 9-01-2003
A political realignment in this country isn't possible until we heal the cultural breach that afflicts us.
Kathryn Harrison 9-01-2003
When Thérèse Martin died in 1897 at age 24, she was a nobody; most of the world had never heard of her.
Gareth Higgins 9-01-2003
Gareth Higgins, author of the new book How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films (Relevant Books) writes about...
J. Daryl Byler 9-01-2003
While many in the U.S. civil rights movement were busy integrating lunch counters, others took on an even tougher challenge—integrating U.S. churches.
In Image and Spirit, author and artist Karen Stone recounts comments she overheard in a modern art museum one November day
Danny Duncan Collum 7-01-2003
There's been a resurgence of entertaining protest - or, at least, protesting entertainers.
Quique Aviles 7-01-2003
At the Sojourners National Roundtable on Faith, Art, and Social Activism, Quique Avilés spoke about the role of the artist in bringing about a more just society.
Andrea Jeyaveeran 7-01-2003
You start to get an idea of how Wally Lamb, the editor of Couldn't Keep It to Myself, feels about the authors in his anthology of incarcerated female writers...
Judy Coode 7-01-2003
Justice-focused economists understand that the dominant world financial system is based on con- stant replenishment, and those who are unable for whatever reason to contribute