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Gina Dalfonzo is the author of One by One: Welcoming the Singles in Your Church (Baker Books, 2017). She is the editor of Dickensblog and a columnist at Christ & Pop Culture. Her writing has been published in The Atlantic, Plough Quarterly, Christianity Today, First Things, The Weekly Standard, Guideposts, Aleteia, and OnFaith, among others. She lives in Virginia.

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	Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis 4.07 avg rating — 546 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Gospel in Dickens: Selections from His Works by Charles Dickens, Karen Swallow Prior (Foreword), Gina Dalfonzo (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	'Bring Her Down': How the American Media Tried to Destroy Sarah Palin 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plough Quarterly No. 26 – What Are Families For? by Ross Douthat, Edwidge Danticat, Sarah C. Williams 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens

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“Single people aren’t projects to be fixed. We’re fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, making the journey through life alongside the rest of the church, and dealing with a set of circumstances and experiences that take a lot of grace and strength to handle—which can’t always be easily fixed with advice, scolding, or rules.”
― Gina Dalfonzo, One by One: Welcoming the Singles in Your Church

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“Albeit with the best intentions in the world, the church has created a culture that simultaneously pressures singles to get married and makes it very difficult for them to do so.”
― Gina Dalfonzo, One by One: Welcoming the Singles in Your Church

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“She [Dorothy L. Sayers] believed the the artist must serve the work faithfully, but that ultimately, in doing so, he or she was serving Someone higher than the work.”
― Gina Dalfonzo, Dorothy and Jack: The Transforming Friendship of Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis

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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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“You dance love, and you dance joy, and you dance dreams. And I know if I can make you smile by jumping over a couple of couches or running through a rainstorm, then I'll be very glad to be a song and dance man.”
― Gene Kelly

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“It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

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