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A Series of 3 Poems by Samuel J. Fox
An Update from Baptist Country Like a ghost swallow, Christ was lifted into the wide, empty fields of heaven by the wind. Yes, wide. Indeed, empty. You don’t want to die before you see the face of God in the eaves of a pink dogwood tree. If you don’t, you weren’t truly…
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“Rumor Has It, They Don’t Grow Religion in Their Land” by Tini Ngatini
When I first came to the Bồ Đề Pagoda to see this fish release ritual in person, to observe each religious gesture and object involved in it, to listen to the invocation of the divine name, to hear them telling me the story of the ritual and reasons behind it, I already knew what it…
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Understanding The Islamic Concept Inshallah Through Psychogeography by Tini Ngatini
Travel has always been illuminating for me—every place I visit presents me with experiences that shed light on things I was previously unable to fully understand. That this is so, is only natural to Mrs. Trang, an urban planner from a university in Hanoi. She introduces me to Psychogeography. Psychogeography is an urban planning concept…