Alfredo Deambrosi

Last week, I redeemed an electronic gift certificate to audible.com and bought a short-fiction collection, which I am listening to as I commute.
The stories remind me of last semester, the first semester that I taught an introductory college literature course: En 103 Composition and Literature. I assigned eleven short stories in this order.

Appointment with [...]

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In a service yesterday morning, the congregation sang Charles Wesley’s hymn, “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling.”  As I was singing, I noticed a couple of themes and the connection between them.  While extolling various attributes of God, the hymn seems to be a prayer that God would bring permanent deliverance from anxiety.
The hymnist expresses the [...]

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