Philip Yancey Recommends: Orthodoxy

''Why anyone would pick up a book with that formidable title eludes me,'' writes Philip Yancey of G. K. Chesterton''s Orthodoxy. ''But one day I did so and my faith has never recovered. I was experiencing a time of spiritual dryness in which everything seemed stale, warmed over, lifeless. Orthodoxy brought freshness and, above all, a new spirit of adventure.''

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