Josh Abbotoy is the founder and CEO of RidgeRunner, a rural real estate development company. Josh is the grateful beneficiary of Christian education, having been homeschooled, then earning his B.A. (history) from Union University and an M.A. (medieval and Byzantine studies) from the Catholic University of America before earning his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Josh was a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and his writing can be found, among other places, in American Reformer, First Things, the American Mind, the Federalist, and the Tennessean. He lives with his wife and four children in rural Tennessee.
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