Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast.

Brand new this month in the Christian Heritage Series at Cannon Press is

Jeremiah Burrows, the rare jewel of Christian contentment,

with a fantastic introduction from Nancy Wilson.

Burrows, being a wise pastor, works the teaching of contentment into every possible nook

and cranny in the Christian life.

If you want to read something to make you feel you have arrived, this is not the book for you.

Burrows understands that contentment is a mystery

and cannot be taught lightly. It requires diligent application if we are to say with Paul that we have learned the secret of being content in all circumstances.

From Nancy Wilson's introduction.

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So welcome to the podcast. This is episode 143.

One four three. can you believe it.

Thank you for joining me.

Good to have you with us.

Grateful to be riding along in your car or wherever it is we are.

So I want to talk a little bit about endless conservatism.

And this is another way of saying, I'm speaking of a conservatism that doesn't really have any intention of conserving anything.

And I want to raise what ought to be a very simple question.

So I began reading National Review when I was in high school.

I picked up a book

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