A novelist’s lonely struggle to recover the religion-inspired liberalism of America’s founding ethos.
Benjamin J. Dueholm
Benjamin J. Dueholm is a writer and Lutheran pastor working in Chicago.
Posted inMagazine, March/April 2011
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