Allison Backous Troy

Allison Backous Troy is a writer and educator currently living in Boston, Mass., with her family. 
 

The withering witness of Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child

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Station Eleven and hope amidst apocalypse

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Mary Gordon’s The Liar's Wife and the spiritual gift of attentiveness

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The Empathy Exams’ call for courage

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Theology through character in A Land Without Sin

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Young, isolated, indebted: ministering to post-college adults

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Zelda Fitzgerald and the limits of passion

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The withering prayer of Valerie Sayers’ The Powers

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Hearing others’ voices in The Silence and the Roar

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Telegraph Avenue and reading as neighbor

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Marilynne Robinson, The New Yorker and oblique evangelism

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The rough redemption of Toni Morrison’s Home

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Coming face to face with sex offenders in Lost Memory of Skin

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The real 99 percent

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Images, icons and faith

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Weeping with Sudan

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Electronic grace for Iran's captive hikers

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Gillian Welch’s '10 sad songs'

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