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The Dover Principle- and What I Learned When I Didn’t Apply It
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Kristina Robb-Dover
I’ve coined “the Dover Principle” by way of our recent visit to my in-laws in Boston. The Dover Principle states this: a three-day limit to visits with extended family is good for everybody. Visits exceeding three days overstay the welcome and invite unnecessary drama. (Besides, don’t good things happen on Day 3? You know, “third…
“Openness to Grace,” a.k.a. “The Suspension of Disbelief”?
By
Kristina Robb-Dover
“A suspension of disbelief is…what links literature and religion, both of which require a leap of faith as the first step.” So goes yesterday’s post from Andrew Sullivan’s “The Dish.” Its focus is the writer Madeleine L’Engle, author of the work A Wrinkle in Time and other fantastical children’s books, upon the recent release of a…
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