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Aug 26
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God Hunts You Like a Dog

St. Anthony's Tongue
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What if the spiritual life is less about finding God, and more about realizing that God has been chasing you the whole time?

In this episode, we look at Francis Thompson’s The Hound of Heaven, the conversion of Jacques Fesch, Jonah, the lost sheep, and the strange, relentless mercy of a God who refuses to stop coming after us.

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