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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

What Is Freedom of Conscience?

What Is Freedom of Conscience?

Its long history in Europe and England prepared the American Revolution. Where has this trait gone?

by Marilynne Robinson | Monday, December 04, 2017
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Onward, Christian Liberals

Christianity's long tradition of social injustice

by Marilynne Robinson | Wednesday, March 01, 2006

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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last month at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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