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Podcast: At Sea with Justin McRoberts
Episode: @ Sea Podcast #29: Jonathan Merritt
Description: In her landmark book “Caring For Words in a Culture of Lies” Marylin McEntyre writes…
“If language is to retain its power to nourish and sustain our common life, we have to care for it in something like the way good farmers care for the life of the soil, knowing nothing worth eating can be grown in soil that has been used up, fertilized or exposed too many toxic chemicals.”
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There may not be a cultural sphere in greater need of that kind of word-care than that of American Christianity. My guest is author, journalist a...