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The Intellectual Life

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Rules for Christian Intellectuals, Part III

June 30, 2019 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 11

The world is falling apart. Gunmen kill civilians in office buildings and schools; babies die in wars and in abortion clinics. People suffer poverty, sexual violence, hunger. Our planet is rife with racism and tyranny […]

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April 5, 2019 Dr. Kelly Scott Franklin 17

When I was in graduate school, my best friend gave me a plain brown book called The Intellectual Life, by a French Dominican priest named Fr. Sertillanges. I started it a few times, but never […]

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