VIDEO
Duration: 26:28 — Talk delivered on Friday, October 11, 2019
Christian Community as the World's Leaven: Where Two or Three Gather
—Leah Libresco Sargeant—
Author
Leah Libresco Sargeant grew up as an atheist and converted to Catholicism after she picked fights with the most interesting wrong people she could find at Yale University. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, First Things, USA Today, America, The American Conservative, Commonweal, The American Interest, and other outlets. She is the author of Arriving at Amen (on her conversion) and Building the Benedict Option (on creating Christian community). She has spoken on CNN, at Theology on Tap in multiple countries, and at Chicago Ideas Week. She currently serves as co-coordinator of the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Life at Princeton.
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