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In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World is unavailable, but you can change that!

ECPA Christian Book Award Finalist - Faith and Culture Christianity Today Book of the Year Award, Politics and Public Life Common life in our society is in decline. Our communities are disintegrating, as the loss of meaningful work and the breakdown of the family leave us anxious and alone—indeed, half of all Americans report daily feelings of loneliness. Our public discourse is polarized and...

Donald Trump began using the line among themselves, saying, “one must imagine Sisyphus happy” as they described the work before them.11 There is something many of us can relate to here, of course. The honorable defeat is a common literary trope. And even outside of Christianity, there are many people who regard martyrdom as a noble calling. Yet honor, as Camus defines it, remains a thin concept. As Sartre noted, there is no being outside of humanity to define what honor would be for us. And so,