... of God: A Postmodern Response , edited by Hart Kevin Wall Barbara , 93 – 105 . New York : Fordham University Press . Ratzinger Joseph . 1985 . The Ratzinger Report: An Exclusive Interview on the State of the Church, with Vittorio Messori . San Francisco : Ignatius Press...

... to church with my mother,” he said with disgust. Lawrence was only a year older than me but seemed older than that due to all the hell he’d been through. He looked just like his mother and he loved her to death. He fought in the ’hood protecting his mother’s honor. He...

... : 465 – 68 . Lipton Sara . 1999 . Images of Intolerance: The Representation of Jews and Judaism in the Bible Moralisée . Berkeley : University of California Press . Lubac Henri de . ( 1944 ) 2006 . Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages: Historical...

... of Goods in the Early Jerusalem Church.” Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt 26 : 1730 – 74 . Carlisle Robert . 1987 . The Proffered Crown: Saint-Simonianism and the Doctrine of Hope . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press . Deissman Adolf . 1929 . The New Testament...

... as an expletive. As a child she d rinse my mouth out with soap and until I was sixteen she forced me into attending Sunday school. I d convulse when forced to stand in front of the church and sing hymns with the rest of the children s choir, as though I were allergic to Jesus. Her home was adorned with framed...

.... Now some of them say they’re going to start coming to church.” “Isn’t that a blessing? I had my doubts about this whole CBS thing, but it surely has made a lot of people pay attention to what we’re doing.” “I guess.” She poured a substantial amount of oil...

... philosophie de la chair . Paris : Seuil , 2000 . Lubac Henri de . Corpus Mysticum: The Eucharist and the Church in the Middle Ages: Historical Survey . Trans. Simmonds Gemma . Eds. Hemming Laurence Paul Parsons Susan Frank . Notre Dame : U of Notre Dame P , 2007 . Lyotard...

... mentioned several times how lovely a piano would look in the window elegant and tasteful. She told her sons how much everyone in the house loved it when her mother would play the piano after church. The old man smirked but did not force her to admit that her mother could barely play...

... and I didn’t wanna come out —​I remember my mother coming in there without her shoes on, only socks, and we were sliding around and bouncing and laughing, like all we had was that moment to care. Sirens go by on the street. Always sirens in Asbury, as regular as church bells. My mother used...

... was in the passenger seat when one such driver, of the Church of the Nazarene and an exemplar of their well-known meekness, brought the car to a stop at the meeting of two so-called section roads. Being unsure of the proper way to proceed, the young man turned to the instructor for guidance. The student...

... teachers kept sending me to the front o ce for what my principal, an ex-football coach, called unsportsmanlike conduct. Stop kicking kids in the balls, Duke had said. We were walk- ing through the prayer garden behind St. Mary s Catholic Church. at s cheating, and the Virgin Mary doesn t like...

... indentation in the grass. I traced its nose, its flank still quivering to shoo away the flies, the imprint of one hoof. There had been an unexplainable life here. I remember holding my breath so as not to scare away the memory of sleep and walking softly and quietly, like leaving an empty church. Today I ll...

...Sarah Gzemski [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Sarah Gzemski 2024 Money-church on the radio says God loves landlords. Says the love of money is the root of all evil, not the money itself. Unless you love a dollar more than an investment property, you're holy, you've got...

... and we went to the same kindergarten, a small room in our church, full of sunflowers and praise. Carolyn was seven, I believe, and Cleo was just a baby, not even one year old. My father ran for the phone in the back office of the farm market (known always as the Strawberry for the large, smiling...

...Michelle M. Tokarczyk © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 38 the minnesota review Michelle M. Tokarczyk Step Stool Skimping on grocery money, or even the church’s weekly basket, each year Mom tried to rummage me a birthday. I hope she...

... to church and pray to complete protein sources. Tell them you’ve resorted to sloppy pairings of carb with starch. That you invite bags of Lays over and sometimes wake up on the plate next to them. Tell them you’re tired of facilitating everyone else’s cravings, knowing you barely...

... under him. He never told the friend. Couldn't sleep lying down, could only grocery shop leaned on a Walmart cart for a walker. My church said the traveling faith healer could help. I thought him like a car on a lift. If the healer placed his palm at the bow of my father's back...

... like eyes. no, we open on eyes, two of them like eggs drooling on a plate. no, the word of the day. we open on a door that opens on a graveyard so you think we’re in a church or the home of a man who tends to graveyards, also known as a sexton. yes, we all know about the graveyard shift...

..., all along, been a rotting flower? The bumps grow and grow. They play make-believe: when I m older, I d like to be a flower. Oh, Remi, you missed them, those slinking warning signs. To do on Monday: browse caskets, sing church hymns, burn flowers. minnesota review 99 (2022) DOI 10.1215/00265667-9992873...

... American, practicing Catholic family, though during a liberalizing period of the church. In my English fresh- man seminar at Cornell, I read Mary Daly, Beyond God the Father and The Church and the Second Sex.These books made what now seems an obvious point: the church is patriarchal. But I read...