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Jeremy Fernando’s book, The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death (2010), challenges all the usual assumptions about, and approaches to, the suicide bomber’s act and to what is at stake in it. Rather than simply dismissing it as “evil,” … Continue reading →

But no one can tame the tongue; it is a restless evil and full of deadly poison. —James 3:8 With the same tongue, we explode into argumentative rants, console the mourning, show others what we know, plead for sympathy, back-stab, … Continue reading →

Ever and again comes the thought that what we see of a sign is only the outside of something within, in which the real operations of sense and meaning go on. 1 We are again and again using this simile of … Continue reading →