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The Bible starts out with one of the most profound statements ever made, one of the most challenged statements ever made. We ...

The killing of children is especially condemned by God through the prophets. In the land God gave his people to occupy, foreign nations had the custom of sacrificing some of their children in fire.

Borkovsky’s border-hopping tending discipline culls rich pickings from across centuries of artistic endeavor of various ilks.