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Making room for the Gospel of Judas

“We don’t think the Gospel of Judas belongs in the canon — but we also don’t think it belongs in the trash: instead it belongs in the history of Christianity.” (Via.)

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A library’s shifting stock

Sacramento library staffers protest management’s “departure from amassing a rich research collection to pandering to the whims of the YouTube generation.”

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The quotable (and formidable) Flannery O’Connor

I’ve been looking back over Flannery O’Connor’s previously collected correspondence while awaiting more excerpts from her letters to Betty Hester. Many of her comments about writing are shrewd — and of course I can’t heap enough praise on her fiction. Still, rereading the letters, I have the feeling that O’Connor’s belief in the Absolute Correctness of Catholicism must have made . . .

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