A Candle in the Window

There are advantages to growing up in an old New England town. You gain a sense of history as you see houses that are 100, 200, even 300 years old mixed in with the vinyl siding and thermal windows of modernity. You can almost feel the ghostly presence of colonial ancestors, as you sit in [...]

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Hitchens the Hypocrite

Christopher Hitchens, the increasingly visible militant atheist who never hesitates to skewer those that differ from his exalted opinions, has recently criticized (in Slate) President-Elect Barack Obama for choosing Pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at the upcoming presidential inauguration.
Now, Mr. Hitchens is entitled to his opinions, as are those who disagree with him, [...]

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Finding Grace

It was one of “those” childbirths.
One and a half years after the birth of his first son, Richard, another boy, Sacha, found the warm embrace of his beaming papa. But Sacha came at a high price tag for Vince. Gaining a son, he lost his heart’s best friend, as his wife soon lay still in [...]

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