Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren - What does the kingdom

- What does the kingdom of God look like in my everyday life

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and been tested by the most powerful and the most humbling of men

which won the Lillian Smith Book Award

little has been known about her except what she chose to reveal in her published letters

Double Effect: Poems Alan R. Warren - What does the kingdomMartha Serpas's Double Effect reimagines a principle first outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas in Summa Theologica, which considers whether an action is morally permissible if it causes harm while bringing about a good result. In resonant verse pointed by Cajun language, these poems measure the good that can come from destructive situations: maternal deprivation, spiritual poverty, mania, ecological devastation. Serpas shows that compromised marshes and