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It was in 2018 that Aaron Slodov came to believe that America had lost its soul. Slodov, an unassuming sandy-haired millennial from Cleveland, had spent much of his professional life working out ...

When I was a girl, my Bajan grandmother insisted that my older sister and I recite Psalm 23 every night before bed. I didn’t yet know what death was, but I knew that there was something sinister and ...

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