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Da Jesus Book: When Pidgin Meets Scripture

It was real. And when I read “God get so plenny love an pity fo da peopo inside da world,” I felt something crack open that the King James, with all its marble reverence, never touched. A friend gave me Da Jesus Book when I lived in Maui – the entire New Testament translated into […]

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The Phone Calls We Choose, or Choose Not, to Make

Zelda

What words do you wish you had spoken to someone before it was too late?Now that’s a premise I can get behind. Laura Imai Messina’s The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World asks readers to contemplate exactly that question as we follow Yui, a young woman whose life is shattered by loss. After

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