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Brian Marr

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in Solano County, California, The United States
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I was born in California but moved across the country to Connectictut, where I was raised as the oldest of eleven children. We were all homeschooled K-12, and there I acquired a lifelong love for theology, philosophy, and literature, especially C.S. Lewis. Because of my growing love for theology, I was drawn to Moscow, Idaho and studied at New Saint Andrews. Twice. I read more C.S. Lewis, went to the edgy end of the FV spectrum, had to be rebuked for a while, and then re-emerged shaken but Protestant. I love to write long reviews. Least favorite thing on goodreads is a one sentence review, unless the book is boring.

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Five Children and It

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Top-notch history, with a well-argued thesis. Hath argues that in the period after the Revolution in the early part of the 19th century, there was a remarkable de-institutionalization and ground level grassroots version of Christianity taking root in ...more
Where the Right Went Wrong by Patrick J. Buchanan
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Against Christianity by Peter J. Leithart
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C.S. Lewis
“A thing may be morally neutral and yet the desire for that thing may be dangerous.”
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

C.S. Lewis
“Theocracy has been rightly abolished not because it is bad that learned priests should govern ignorant laymen, but because priests are wicked men like the rest of us.”
C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

C.S. Lewis
“I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. “Emotional” is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake.”
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

C.S. Lewis
“who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation.”
C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

Peter J. Leithart
“Before we can progress in providing answers . . . we have to repent of our questions.”
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