VIDEO
Duration: 44:48 with discussion afterwards — Talk delivered on Saturday, October 16, 2021
Babylon's Furnace: Truth, Suffering & the Hard Road Ahead
—Rod Dreher—
Touchstone Contributing Editor
This talk has also appeared in the pages of Touchstone. Read the paper here.
Rod Dreher is a veteran of three decades of magazine and newspaper journalism and has written three New York Times bestsellers—Live Not By Lies, The Benedict Option, and The Little Way of Ruthie Leming—as well as Crunchy Cons and How Dante Can Save Your Life. He lives in Budapest, Hungary. He is a contributing editor for Touchstone.
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