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Learning the Wrong Lessons About Lent From the Desert Fathers
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Learning the Wrong Lessons About Lent From the Desert Fathers

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Michael Reneau speaks with Nadya Williams, managing editor of Currentand author of Cultural Christians in the Early Church and Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic, about her Dispatch Faith essay on the early practices of Desert Fathers and Mothers and her research on the societal views of motherhood.

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Michael Reneau is a managing editor at The Dispatch and is based in Greeneville, Tennessee. Prior to joining the company in 2022, he was editor of WORLD Magazine and for several years was editor of a daily newspaper in East Tennessee. When Michael isn’t editing, he stays plenty busy with his wife and four kids.

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