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on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague by Thomas Albert Howard
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An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
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Victimhood Culture Scapegoats Its Very Source by Michael P. Foley
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Contours of Culture
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Colin Gunton's The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
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Calvin Stapert's A New Song for an Old World: Musical Thought in the Early Church
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Butler’s Lies
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Down But Not Out
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Our One Faith
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