VIDEO
Duration: 44:15 — Talk delivered on Thursday, October 12, 2023
Authority, Love & Devotion
—R. R. Reno—
Editor of First Things, Author
This talk has also appeared in the pages of Touchstone. Read the paper here.
R. R. Reno, the editor of First Things, a journal of religion and public life, serves on the board of advisers of the Edmund Burke Foundation, the sponsor of the 2019 National Conservatism Conference. After earning his doctorate in religious studies from Yale, he taught theology at Creighton University for twenty years. His books include Genesis: A Theological Commentary; Fighting the Noonday Devil; and Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society. He lives with his wife in New York City.
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