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“Alas! A Lament for the United States of America”

Poet in the pulpit

Posted May 14th, 2021

As the Rev. Crawford Brubaker began working on what would be his new book, “Alas! A Lament for the United States of America,” he remembers tossing page after page of paper into the garbage. Each piece — squeezed into a ball — contained some of the pain he felt due to the pandemic.