Drew Saxton’s Reviews > Communion of Radicals: The Literary Christian Left in Twentieth-Century America > Status Update

"...there's a certain kind of holy witness that only damn fools can bear."

"Dabbs's memory of his wife - and not a mere memory, but an animation of her real presence - functions as his own practical poem, a symbol salvaged from a painful past that motivates social action toward reconciliation..."

"Yet I remembered that thoughts which do not pass into actions lose their vigor." - quoting Dabbs's "The Road Home"