In the Denzel Washington movie, “Fallen,” evil spreads without resistance by the merest touch through people, like electricity through copper wire.
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darkness
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A girl of about 9 slowly makes her way downstream from ‘the beach,’ a small spit of sand in the park at the adjacent site. Carrying a walking stick she…
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I had a revealing conversation with a couple of millennials recently. Best friends, one a father of two young children and the other soon to be a father, they are…
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The land is bathed in beauty as the sun, giving its last warmth on an ineffably clear and lovely winter’s afternoon, slides toward the horizon.
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A young couple slowly makes their way upstream. They have a big dog and stop often, for no apparent reason. About thirty meters away, the young man, who’s in jeans…
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One of the best studies of good and evil by an American writer is Herman Melville’s “Billy Budd.” I highly recommend the novella, as well as an excellent 1962 film…
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A conversation with a Buddhist teacher from India turned to the Buddha’s illumination. “The Buddha,” he said, “was attacked by Mara, but the Buddha came to see that the evil…
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“The greatest achievement of the devil in the modern age is convincing people that he doesn’t exist.” I don’t know who said that, but it rings true with almost funereal…