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...Today, matters have shifted considerably in both church and culture, and yet that two-way conversation continues on different topics with different voices...
...He laments the downward trajectory of the New Yorker, "a product of a certain America, parochial in its way, but very sure of itself, and sure of its identity, which by the 1980s, was dissolving under pressures of cultural ideology and social divisions...
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