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Monday, December 1, 2008

Church is...

one of the few places left in our society that knows how speak of both loss and hope.
-Brueggemann

2 comments:

Matthew Moffitt said...: Nice. Maybe we should turn this into a meme.; December 1, 2008 at 10:10 PM
Mike W said...: Yes, please do. I'm going to do a bunch of them so I can click on a link and get an instant pep talk about church; December 2, 2008 at 7:06 PM

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