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REVIEW: Live Not By Lies – Rod Dreher (Penguin Random House, 2020)

With Live Not by Lies, Rod Dreher continues in much the same vein that his 2016 effort The Benedict Option left off: a practical stab at dealing with the severe cultural rot that lurches ominously toward outright persecution. Where his previous book used the Benedictine Order and its impact on medieval Europe as its framework, Dreher here focuses on the Soviet empire’s totalitarianism and the efforts Christian dissidents used to survive its reign of terror.

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REVIEW: Alms for Oblivion – Peter Kemp (1961; Mystery Grove, 2020)

Across these books is the arc of an English law student who, with a certain ideological vigor, abandons his comfortable life in the Isles to throw himself into the dangers, horrors, adventures, and camaraderie of war. But it is a story that has two distinct levels to it: Kemp’s personal trials comprise the obvious tale, but he is also a person active in the machinations of history.

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