The year is 1943, and change is in the air. After years of enduring a seemingly unstoppable Blitzkrieg, the message of British leaders was beginning to take a different tune. Victory–total, inevitable, unmistakable victory against Germany and the Axis powers–was right around the corner. The war was still raging at full force, with the battles of Normandy, the Bulge, and Berlin yet on the horizon, but an Allied victory over Germany was now a question of when, not if, and the tone and tenor of British leadership and civic life began to adjust accordingly. Life beyond the war was no longer something to wistfully long for in a bomb shelter; it was something already, but not yet fully, here.
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Austin Gravley
Austin Gravley is the Director of Youth Ministry for Redeemer Christian Church (Amarillo, TX). He is the former Social Media Manager of The Gospel Coalition and the Executive Producer of Mending Division Academy for American Values Coalition. He has a M.A. in Biblical Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. He is currently a cohost for the ‘What Would Jesus Tech?’ podcast and working on a book about Digital Babylon. Austin lives with his wife Melissa and newborn son Moses in Amarillo, TX.
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