Sally S. Wright

Latest by Sally S. Wright in Chronicles

• Blog

  August 7, 2019

  The Pilgrimage of Malcolm Muggeridge

  Malcolm Muggeridge was more than a social critic and irreverent humorist who pinpointed the pitfalls of human institutions. By the time he died in November 1990, he had become the most widely read Christian apologist since C. S. Lewis—much to the disgust of his peers in the press, who had been irritated with him since he first rejected his family faith. Muggeridge saw that it is our values, not our production processes and social arrangements, that make life bearable or worth living.

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• Blog

  March 21, 2019

  The Pilgrimage of Malcolm Muggeridge

  In the second segment of the several-part BBC documentary on his life, Malcolm Muggeridge smoothed his white feathery hair away from his cherubic face, smiled cryptically, and said in his deep, rolling, gentle English voice, "There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow humans."

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  December 1992

  The Pilgrimage of Malcolm Muggeridge

  By the time he died in November 1990, Malcolm Muggeridge had become the most widely read Christian apologist since C. S. Lewis— much to the disgust of his peers in the press, who had been irritated with him since he first rejected his family faith.

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• Vital Signs

  April 1989

  Writing in the Tolstoy Tradition

  "I always wanted to be a writer I can remember the first book I ever wrote when I was very little. I wrote the title and the index, but I didn't actually get ’round to the contents." Nikolai Tolstoy laughs and leans back, trying to fit his extremely long legs under my dining room table.

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