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How have artists tried to capture the paradoxes of the cross through their work?

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Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel The Kite Runner, set in the author’s homeland Afghanistan, became a Hollywood blockbuster…

A review of the film The Spiderwick Chronicles.

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Beyoncé is incredibly popular. What makes her music resonate so deeply with people?