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Once Upon A Time

The world was terrible. That’s something I didn’t appreciate for a long time, and I’m still not sure it’s something I really grasp. It’s one thing to see a statistic. It’s another thing entirely to sit and to try to imagine what those numbers are trying to say — what horror is tracked by the…

Beneath all things

There’s something horrific about the idea of hell.  Which is, of course, the point of it all. It’s not a particularly scary story without some horror to go alongside it. But I think there’s something far, far, more unsettling than hell itself.  Our response. It’s not particularly new as an idea, but forgiveness goes hand…