A little late, but today’s “On the Square” column, The Reasons the Heart Wants , takes up the now somewhat fashionable dismissal of apologetic writing as ineffective, divisive, and the like. This seems to me a great mistake and a practical failure in charity, based on a simplified view of how people come to believe.
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