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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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What Is a Dog?

by Chloe Shaw

We admit that unofficial, national fill-in-the-blank days can sometimes feel contrived. (National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day, anyone?) But National Hug Your Dog Day (April 10) is too good not to celebrate, especially if it means we can revisit one of our favorite essays: Chloe Shaw’s “What Is a Dog?” from our Spring 2018 issue. After losing a beloved hound named Booker—described as a “wolf meets horse meets dinosaur meets tongue”—Shaw confronts the joys and inevitable sorrows of loving a pet. “A dog is a second chance. A dog is death and life. A dog is plush red carpet and fresh warm pee.” A dog is worth celebrating, and not only on April 10.