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Good & bad about this new blog
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Rod Dreher
I’m struggling to get my footing on this new blog. As you know, I’m no longer blogging about politics and the culture war, and as a result, my readership numbers have dipped. It’s going to take some time to build them back up, and I’m confident this can happen. Still, I was not prepared for…
Maybe you should stay in the city
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Rod Dreher
Sharon Astyk, a rural farmer who writes often about preparing for what she believes is a coming time of severe economic hardship related to peak oil and climate change, says city people who believe escaping to the country is the best option for them ought to seriously reconsider. She makes the case for why cities…
Dr. Gould, small-town physician of the gods
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Rod Dreher
Last night I was up with insomnia and started poking around Facebook, which I never do. And what did I find? A tribute page to Alfred R. Gould, M.D., now retired, but in his day the small-town physician of myth. Except Dr. Gould was a myth that’s true. Dr. Gould was the town doctor when…
The newest great American
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Rod Dreher
Just got word that my dear friend and godfather Vladimir Grigorenko today became an American citizen. He is the iconographer at St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Dallas — pictured above — and an emigre from Ukraine. Vladimir was raised without religion in the former Soviet Union, but converted to Christianity as an adult. Trained as…
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