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Kris Mineau died on September 3rd. A heroic pilot during the Vietnam war, a missions pastor at his church, and the leader of Massachusetts Family Institute for 15 years, Mineau was the embodiment of what the famous missionary Eric Liddell in the movie Chariots of Fire called "muscular Christianity.
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The Fort: A Novel of the Revolutionary War by Bernard Cornwell HarperCollins 2010 Bernard Cornwall, the author of The Fort, is the current undisputed master of historical fiction. He has written more than 40 historical novels, including twenty in the famed Richard Sharpe series, chronicling Sharpe's rise in
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We Have Been Harmonized: Life In China's Surveillance State by Kai Strittmatter HarperCollins September 2020 We Have Been Harmonized is a must-read for those who want to comprehend the totalitarian state that China's President Xi Jinping has created since assuming power in 2012. Former Chinese leader
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Several weeks ago, my wife and I received postcards from Massachusetts Secretary of State William Francis Galvin instructing us how to apply to vote-by-mail in the upcoming elections in the Commonwealth. The question is: Why?
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Night Soldiers By Alan Furst 1988 Night Soldiers is the first of fifteen spy novels that Alan Furst has written, all of which take place between 1933 and 1945 in Europe. The book, published in 1988, is the first in the series and arguably his best; but each book is
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Roberto Miranda died on Saturday, May 21. He was a spiritual giant – the person with arguably more moral capital than anyone else in Boston. His unexpected death at the age of 66 is a tragic loss for his family, his church, his many friends, and our community. He leaves a
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First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. As for the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory. — Vladimir
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis By Serhii Plokhy April 2021 464 pages W.W. Norton With President Vladimir Putin putting Russian nuclear forces on high alert several weeks ago, what book could be timelier than Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly, an outstanding narrative of those