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I Was a Teenage Conservative

The dead end of politics & the possibilities of art

Gregory Wolfe

I want to relate my work as the editor of a quarterly journal of literature and the arts to the larger patterns of Catholic civic engagement in America today. The more I think about this, the more convinced I become that the best way to address it is to attempt something of a self-portrait, to describe both the evolution of my ideas and some of the reasons for my conversion t (...)


 

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Gregory Wolfe is the editor of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion and writer in residence at Seattle Pacific University. His latest book, co-authored with his wife Suzanne, is Circle of Grace: Praying with—and for—Your Children (Ballantine).

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