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If you’re going to welcome me with open arms…

Terry Gross accidentally made Tracy Morgan cry, but listening to it again, rather than being the funniest and most touching thing ever, it sounds like Morgan was being bullied. Gross seemed unfazed by his vulnerability, and poked at his frailness with something approaching a dumbstruck disbelief, until it cracked him. Gross expected him to be [...]

Forgive them, father, they know not how to dance

    I grew up in church; I started college with the intention of becoming a pastor at some point. I took it all entirely too seriously (there are people I owe apologies concerning this). But here’s the thing: I took a Bible class that first year. My system of belief up until that point [...]