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(RNS) — Since childhood, I’ve been a regular target of ignorance and bigotry. My experience contributed to my becoming a scholar of history and religion, but more than that, it has given me a clearer ...

I write because I am terrified of forgetting. Not the mundane forgetting of where I placed my keys or what I ate for breakfast, but something more profound — the forgetting of who I was at a ...

Imagine you are a 19th-century shipowner about to send one of your vessels to the New World, carrying a cargo of hopeful families seeking a better life. While your ship has historically been sturdy, ...