Jake Meador, 'In Search of the Common Good'
July 16, 2019
Alastair Roberts
Jake Meador joins me to discuss his new book, 'In Search of the Common Good: Christian Fidelity in a Fractured World' (https://www.ivpress.com/in-search-of-the-common-good).
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