'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewing and all else in our culture stopped dead-still for half a year. I went on the book tour anyway. But I felt like the apostle Paul going unto the catacombs where scared believers hid and prayed.
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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewin
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'The Practical Heart' was published one week before the World Trade towers collapsed. Book reviewin
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