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Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shklovsky: Preaching lessons from Russian literature
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46:12Now PlayingHow do you make ancient parables feel urgent again? Essayist, author, scholar and mom, Cameron Bellm draws on Russian literature and Viktor Shklovsky’s ostranenie—making the familiar strange—to reimagine preaching. In her homily on the persistent widow (29th Sunday, Ordinary Time, Year C), she layers voices across generations—her grandfather’s 1964 sermons, Oscar Romero, Etty Hillesum—likening its literary effect to “a double-exposed photograph.”
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