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On the road full time, Harry Bruinius covers the Great Plains and Midwest, covering local and regional issues and writing stories about America's heartland. The former New York Bureau Chief, Harry has been writing for the Monitor since 1998.

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For Jimmy Carter, a life of service, defined by faith

For Jimmy Carter, a life of service, defined by faith

President Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, defined his faith as "inextricably entwined with the political …

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Meet the post-Evangelical Christians. They're just getting started.

Meet the post-Evangelical Christians. They're just getting started.

Since the pandemic, the new Post-Evangelical Collective has established hubs in 14 major cities, with about 5…

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Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius:

Better for All the World by Harry Bruinius:

A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America -- and the scientists, social…

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After a mass shooting, what does healing look like?

After a mass shooting, what does healing look like?

After a mass shooting, headlines focus on PTSD. As an inverse counterpoint, trauma experts have noted what th…

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Two mothers, a son's death, and the struggle for forgiveness

Two mothers, a son's death, and the struggle for forgiveness

Giselle Mörch realized how much the concept of forgiveness had always been an abstraction for her. But now, c…

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Behind America's seismic shifts on transgenderism, loving parents

Behind America's seismic shifts on transgenderism, loving parents

Some of the most important changes involving transgender issues are happening at home. More and more, experts…

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In Joplin, a tornado took ‘things you remember.’ But the city’s civic bonds endure.

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By Harry Bruinius Verified
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The first time Joplin called out to Charles Timothy Peay, it called from the ruins. He, like so many Americans, saw the reports of the mile-wide tornado that tore through this southwest Missouri city on Sunday, May 22, 2011. It was one of the most devastating tornadoes in American history, killing 161 people and leaving a scar of splintered neighborhoods, wrecked schools, a hospital jolted off its foundation. He was stunned.
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Get your tire kicks on Route 66. This is the ultimate festival for gearheads.

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By Alfredo Sosa, Harry Bruinius Verified
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The old cars arrived polished for display but alive with use: hoods lifted, engines explained, owners leaning over fenders as if over family albums. The eighth annual Route 66 Cars and Guitars Festival, held in the Mother Road’s centennial year, turned a few blocks of town into a rolling theater of memory – a reunion with an America that once imagined itself most clearly through a windshield on the open highway.
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Get your tire kicks on Route 66. This is the ultimate festival for gearheads.

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By Alfredo Sosa, Harry Bruinius Verified
| The Christian Science Monitor Verified
The old cars arrived polished for display but alive with use: hoods lifted, engines explained, owners leaning over fenders as if over family albums. The eighth annual Route 66 Cars and Guitars Festival, held in the Mother Road’s centennial year, turned a few blocks of town into a rolling theater of memory – a reunion with an America that once imagined itself most clearly through a windshield on the open highway.
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