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Sunday Firesides: Permission to Be Wholesome, Granted

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Kate McKay
Dec 25, 2024
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After being inspired by a family who exemplified genuine, guileless happiness to give up a hedonistic lifestyle and adopt their faith, a friend of writer Rod Dreher told him: “I realized later that I just needed somebody to give me permission to be wholesome."

It's a permission a lot of people these days seem to be waiting for.

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