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On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts is unavailable, but you can change that!

★ Publishers Weekly starred review This is not a book about Saint Augustine. In a way, it's a book Augustine has written about each of us. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith has spent time on the road with Augustine, and he invites us to take this journey too, for this ancient African thinker knows far more about us than we might expect. Following Smith's successful...

every time I click “Agree” and voluntarily give myself over to the whims of Google and Apple. So the young Augustine uses his newfound freedom to devote himself to pursuits that will conscript him. His appetites become voracious. He will be captivated by theatrical shows, giving himself over to entertainments that will enslave him to his own passions. He falls in love with love, but he also falls in love with suffering, not unlike the way we love to mourn on social media.2 Freedom is the right to
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