So I took some walks with Mark, trying to draw him out, but despite his orange Mohawk and wild sexual politics, he was a fairly Lutheran guy, not much given to discussing his emotions or spiritual life.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Take This Bread'

But the texts don't mesh, and the interpolated situations (women are jailed and beaten) and the fragments of character development (Mary Magdalene is a suicidal neurotic, Martha a passionate do-gooder) read more like random bits of political correctness and sexual politics than organic storytelling.

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The accumulation of affairs has brought out a flurry of personal testimony in France from highly placed women politicians and officials who now feel empowered to speak out on the issue of sexual harassment by men in politics.

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