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Augustine

Take Up and Read

| December 8, 2021

Take Up and Read
Seventeen centuries ago, a child’s song recharted the life of one Saint Augustine of Hippo. “Tolle, lege,” the child sang, “Tolle, lege—take up and read.” Sitting under a fig tree, heavy with grief and fatigue, Augustine dragged himself to his feet and did as the...
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Sarah George
Sarah George was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and also interned with the Initiative. She is a senior at Georgetown University where she majors in culture and politics with a focus on the intersection of Christianity and public policy.

Material Political Ends and Immanent Christianity

| October 16, 2020

Material Political Ends and Immanent Christianity
As American politics has become more polarized, American Christians have followed suit. On the left, many progressive Christians embrace socialist ideas and semi-revolutionary tactics as the most effective means of achieving social justice. On the right, post-liberals...
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Collin Slowey
Collin Slowey is a student at Baylor University, where he studies political science, and is the 2020 fall intern for the Initiative on Faith and Public Life.

Toil and Angst: A book review of “On the Road with Saint Augustine” by James K.A. Smith

| February 19, 2020 | Faith

Toil and Angst: A book review of “On the Road with Saint Augustine” by James K.A. Smith
The disarray of post-graduate life left me in existential and theological angst. Why was transitioning to working full time in a city of opportunity at my dream first job so difficult and spattered with discontentment? Why were all of my friends, also working jobs...
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Aryana Petrosky Roberts
Aryana Petrosky Roberts is a senior associate for AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. She graduated from Azusa Pacific University, and is a former John Jay Institute Fellow.