I was not expected to be as moved as I was by L. Brent Bozell Jr.'s severe struggles with bipolar disorder in the last decades of his life, and the uses to which he put his suffering. "Learning more about mercy, then, is the name of my new life: what I want to do with it."
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I might go so far as to say that Bozell achieved a wisdom that has eluded nearly all of his estranged brethren in mainstream conservatism as well as his latter-day imitators
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God's grace comes to us in our brokenness, when our own power and striving have failed; this priority of defeat always will sit, at best, uneasily with the pursuit of political domination
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Agree. The subtitle of Mustard Seeds ("a conservative becomes a Catholic") is significant.
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