It’s coming to America first,
the cradle of the best and of the worst.
It’s here they got the range
and the machinery for change
and it’s here they got the spiritual thirst.
It’s here the family’s broken
and it’s here the lonely say
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What happens after a noted atheist philosopher undergoes harrowing emergency heart surgery?
Does he have an epiphany? And whom does he thank? Some refl ections on life, prayer (other peoples’), and medicine