![]() ![]() “There’s power enough in Heaven,” he finishes the quote as he contemplates the quiet village, “to cure a sin-sick soul.” And then he gets up. ![]() Having finally found sanctuary, Gamache feels a near revulsion at the thought of leaving Three Pines. ![]() Failed to show up as promised on the first anniversary of their separation. Peter, her artist husband, has failed to come home. While Gamache doesn’t talk about his wounds and his balm, Clara tells him about hers. “There is a balm in Gilead,” his neighbor Clara Morrow reads from the dust jacket, “to make the wounded whole.” On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he’d only imagined possible. ![]()
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They are told that they are about to kill one another on an isolated island, and to Shuya’s horror, the seriousness of this proposition is proven when his best friend is killed before his eyes. ![]() Before he can think too much, he’s asleep, and doesn’t wake up until he’s in a strange classroom, and he and all his friends have cold metal collars around their necks. ![]() ![]() But on the bus he notices something strange everyone is falling asleep, and that new tough kid Shogo is trying to break the window. Shuya is so optimistic that he’s even brought along alcohol. Shuya Nanahara and his junior high class of fifteen-year-olds are going on a field trip. ![]() ![]() ![]() She lived through two devastating plagues-one that killed 75 percent of the population of Norwich when she was a child and a second that killed 75 percent of the children there when she was a young woman of childbearing age. The outlines of Julian’s life are all that anyone really knows about her. We cite her in search of personal spirituality and often use her for spiritual comfort, but less often do we allow her ideas and her unique approach to the spiritual questions of her day to penetrate our theological understanding. Since her writings were rediscovered for a broader audience, she’s often been seen more as a spiritual curiosity than as a theologian whose thought deeply influences the tradition. Julian’s on the east coast of England and spent the second half of her long life writing two versions of the same book: A Revelation of Divine Love. Welcome to the 650th anniversary of the visions of Julian of Norwich, the woman who lived in an anchor-hold at St. ![]() It’s rough to be a theologian of incredible insight and depth who is essentially forgotten or ignored for the first 550 years of your existence and then turned into a cliché for the last 100. ![]() ![]() ![]() The interconnected segments of There There, and the ways in which they build to a larger climax, are reminiscent of great novels-in-stories such as Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout and A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. 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