Since my days as a student, the city has encroached upon Salpetriere so it no longer has its country-estate disguise. The stiff, unembracing stone arms spread out from the domed chapel, an ironic center of a hell realm.

It provides a more natural explanation of the Colossian syncretism as stemming from local religious impulses that continued to wield a powerful draw on people converted to Christianity from the local Jewish communities and pagan cults. […] The kind of syncretism we find at Colossae was not unique to that city or region.

Minal, endearingly cheerful but earlobeless, loves her work at a company that makes breakfast bars.

Trump’s target, Hanson suggests, was left reeling: Kim Jong Un expected to slur Western leaders; he never expected any of them to smear him in kind. But Hanson never pauses to examine the substantive results of such a tot lot approach.