During the Joseon era, young people demonstrated filial piety by living at their parents’ grave sites for three years and then maintaining them in perpetuity. Cremation in that neo-Confucian society was strictly forbidden—except for the lowest...
Paul Lundgren is fondly remembered from our shared enthusiasm for running 5K’s and 10K’s in central Texas 30 years ago. An alumnus of Texas Lutheran and UT, he directed the Elgin Western Days 5,555-meter race every August; you could count on it...
If John Gray’s Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus was the worst book I never read, Dallas was the worst television show I never saw. I studiously ignored all of its 357 episodes between April 2, 1978 and May 3, 1991, its Knots Landing...
This photo was taken in a Christian church in Pyongyang in the first decade of the 20th century. We do not know the name of the church, nor that of the pastor, who stands at the front with his right hand lifted. Boys and men are to our left, and...
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