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Walter Hesford

Walter Hesford, born and educated in New England, gradually made his way West. For many years he was a professor of English at the University of Idaho, save for stints teaching in China and France. At Idaho, he taught American Literature, World Literature and the Bible as Literature. He currently coordinates an interfaith discussion group and is a member of the Latah County Human Rights Task Force and Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Moscow. He and his wife Elinor enjoy visiting with family and friends and hunting for wild flowers.
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GPS and Other Invented Mothers

Religions may be human inventions, but what of the mother and father gods worshiped by devotees?
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The Afterlife: One World at a Time

The concept of a heavenly afterlife for the faithful (and a hellish one for their persecutors) seems to have become appealing in Judaism during a time of great persecution: if faithfulness was not rewarded on earth, then it would be later by a just God.
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Wartime Doubts and Faith Communities

Down through the centuries religion has fueled many wars. Or is it just that Might makes Right, and religion is irrelevant, powerless?
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 A Questioning Faith

While Jesus’ followers often wanted answers, he was more likely to challenge them with questions and with parables that open up questions like how can I be neighbor.
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We Are One With The Wild

There’s an analogous negative and positive revelation, the focus of the rest of this column: we are one with the wild.
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“Americans Don’t Need God”

We boast of our trust in God on our dollar bill. In our Pledge of Allegiance we proclaim that we are “one nation, under God.” (Does the fact that we are hardly one nation these days call into question our being under God?)
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Who’s Happy, and Why?

I was often happy as a kid, but as I grew up I more often felt good about feeling gloomy. I loved profoundly depressing literature. Surely those who were happy were shallow.
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