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Author: Barry C. Black Soon after starting my new job working for the Library of Congress, I learned through the grapevine that Senate Chaplain Barry Black  hosted a regular Friday Bible study in one of the nearby Senate buildings. Having already joined one lunch time Bible group and found it amazingly fulfilling and in-depth, I decided to venture out on the DC roads and see just what Chaplain Black had to say. The studies have a certain formality to them; chairs arranged in a semi-circle, the feel of a modern church or large scale reading. Podiums (which he never uses) [...]

Howling heroine... Author:  Nate Blakeslee Great drama is irresistible.  Since the dawn of humanity people have been enthralled by great stories of interpersonal conflict and passion.  As strange as it seems, it may be this trait more than any other that we most closely share with the wolf.  Full of domination, submission, violence, love, loyalty and desire, the social life of wolves is amazingly complicated. Having been exterminated from Yellowstone National Park in 1926, it wasn’t until 1995 that gray wolves were reintroduced to the area from populations in Canada.  Since that time, the lives of various packs within the [...]

Married Life in Mitford Author: Jan Karon Returning to the charm of Mitford, this time glowing in the health of Spring, Jan Karon follows the previous novel, A Light in the Window, in which the frustrated and yet lovable bachelor priest, elderly Father Tim, confronts his fears and proposes to his next door neighbor and true love. Here then, we expect wedding bells and Father Tim’s continued grappling with this penultimate life’s decision. Of course, as any Internet savvy book reader knows, These High, Green Hills instead catapults us forward to Father Tim’s post honeymoon bliss, settling with his eccentric [...]