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“Marriage has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided.”

“The modern household is the place where the consumptive couple do their consuming.”

“If it comes to a choice between the extermination of the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field and the extermination of a building fund, the organized church will elect-indeed, has already elected-to save the building fund” of 96

“many student ministers have been “called” to serve in its churches, but not one has ever been “called” to stay”

Frick yes

Reading this for my dissertation yet I am glad to read it. Favorite pieces so far: A Remarkable Man, A Poem of Difficult Hope, Writer and Region, God and Country.

Hahaha reading this book review about Nate Shaw and Theodore Rosengarten makes me think about a class where the book was assigned ... allow me a Proustian reverie