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Exile Vol. XXVI No. 1
Photo: Untitled by Jamie Bailey 3
Poem: Hi, My Name Is by Kathy Andrews 4
Poem: Untitled by Willi Haworth 5
Photo: Stratified Snow by Jim Lundy 6
Poem: Untitled by A. Pence 7
Poem: Akua\u27ba by Tona Dickerson 8
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Story: The Dogcatchers of Portimao by Debora Papierski 10-13
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Poem: Tocopold Bloom: A Working Class Hero by Mary Ladky 15
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Poem: A Mortal Wound by Peter Fish 17
Poem: Let Me Sleep by R. G. Trub 18-19
Photo: Modified Cube by Jim Lundy 20
Story: Untitled by Kathy Desmond 21-23
Photo: Untitled by Holly Hall 24
Poem: Untitled by Sharon McCartney 25
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Poem: Every Morning I Wake by Peter Fish 27
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Poem: For Mark Some Words by Bonny Lowe 29
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Poem: A Flash of Crooked Light by Lisa Minacci 31
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Poem: Paper Hearts by W. Dulles 33
Drawing: Untitled by Roger Weisman 34
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How to speak of God? Toward a postsecular apologetics
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Practical Theology on 11/04/2018, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1756073X.2018.1460522Against most expectations religion has not vanished from Western culture. If anything, it exercises a greater fascination than ever before. Broadly, we might think of ourselves as occupying a new, 'postsecular' space between a renewed visibility of religion in public life, and a corresponding acknowledgement of the importance of religious values and actors; and persistent and widespread disillusion and scepticism towards religion, and objections to religion as a source of legitimate public discourse. In a world that is more sensitive than ever to religious belief and practice, yet often struggles to accommodate it into secular discourse, how do religious institutions justify their position in a contested and volatile public square? This article argues that the contemporary postsecular context requires a recovery of the ancient practices of Christian apologetics as a form of public, theological witness to the practical value of faith, articulated in both deed and word
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