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Principles for Living in the Negative World
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Do You Know Your Child’s Doctor?
The Politicization of Pediatrics in America by Alexander F. C. Webster
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Our Choice Is Obedience or Jesus as Anti-Christ by Anthony Esolen
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Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
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The Matter at Hand
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
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A Promising Dialogue
Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism: Contemporary Issues in Global Perspective edited by Bradley Nassif and Tim Grass
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Gnostic Anti-Sexuals
Origen's Revenge: The Greek and Hebrew Roots of Christian Thinking on Male and Female by Brian Patrick Mitchell
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35.3 — May/Jun, 2022
Son of Odysseus
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35.6 — Nov/Dec, 2022
One Big Phony War
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