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The Good and Beautiful Life

Rankin Wilbourne

April 16, 2017

The opening story is from Mark Sundeen’s The Unsettlers: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America. Peter De Vries is the author of The Blood of the Lamb. The retelling of De Vries’ story is from Richard John Neuhaus’s "Death on a Friday Afternoon." “Revelation” can be found in the Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, and the story about Americo is from a Cru publication, 'Worldwide Challenge.'

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