Volume 42, Number 1 · January 12, 1995

When the Spirit Moves

By Eavan Boland

Asked to take part in a conference on 'the writer and religion,' I found the subject so wide and the implications of it so broad that the only way I could bring it into focus was to start by being both local and personal. I will begin here with a story which is both odd and true and which, for me, raises just a few of the questions that are at the heart of the subject.



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