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Readers Respond Issue 12
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At the March For Life
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Why the Death Penalty Must Die
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God’s Cop
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The Teacher Who Never Spoke
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Bonhoeffer in China
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The Comandante and the King
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Confronted by Dorothy
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Insights on Courage
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The Art of Courage
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Why We Hope
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Harlem Postcards
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T. S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding”
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The Need of Refugees
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Listening to Silence
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Editors’ Picks Issue 12
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The Happy Nuns
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Traudl Wallbrecher
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The Man Who Welcomed Immigrants
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The Soil of Friendship
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Thomas Müntzer
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A Time for Courage
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Russian artist Nikolay Nikolayevich Ge (1831–1894) is best known for his realist paintings of biblical subjects. Ge painted “What is Truth?” late in life after befriending author Leo Tolstoy. The painting was banned from exhibition for blasphemy. Delighted with the work, Tolstoy wrote, “There can be no peace between Christ and the world.…this is true to history and true to our own day.”
Nikolay Nikolayevich Ge, “What is Truth?” Christ and Pilate, 1890. Image from Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
