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The mosaic has quite the history as a living room in ancient Antioch, now modern Turkey, and a dance floor in Worcester.

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Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more imaginative approaches to faith.