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“The question before us is make-or-break: What kind of future did Christ actually inaugurate? If he came to be a doorway, not a stop sign, what is the path for those reborn into his life?”
Anne Snyder on the heresy of hope in a world stripped of cosmos.
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“I’m always struck by how little Muslims have in common when it comes to a lot of things that you might think everyone agrees on, but they’re divided. They look like America.”
@DMogahed
joins
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
on a new
#zealotspod
.
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"Why is it bestselling brilliance for psychologist Jordan Peterson to say 'make your bed,' but not when your mother teaches you to do it?"
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“The Constitution is neither a left-wing or right-wing document. It is ultimately about how to hold a society together.”
On a new episode of Conversing, Yuval Levin joins Mark Labberton to discuss how we find social cohesion amid sharply felt differences.
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“God is closer to each thing than each thing can be to itself, yet he is not those things. He is not a facet of Being. Rather, Being is a facet of him.”
Join Dionysius the Areopagite and
@millinerd
on a mystical journey at the Met.
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It's time to do pluralism differently.
A new season of Zealots at the Gate with
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
will premiere on Wednesday, May 29. Be sure to subscribe to the show wherever you stream podcasts. You won't want to miss it.
#zealotspod
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Does anyone find this joke Irresistible?
I went to a Calvinist school.
Not that I had a choice.
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“If it were easy for us to see the ways we live in denial, it wouldn’t be denial.”
Chris Owen on why confronting painful truths is essential for personal and societal healing and belonging.
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🎉Publication day!🎉
To celebrate the release of Breaking Ground, we're GIVING AWAY 5 COPIES. To enter, reply below and mention *any writer* you want others to know about. Retweet = bonus entry. Contest closes Jan 5 at 5pm ET.
Can't wait? Purchase here:
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The only counter to acedia (literally the lack of care) is to cultivate practices of caring attention.
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“Coercing people to faith is a really bad idea just because it doesn’t really work and it often backfires.”
On a new episode of
#zealotspod
,
@JohnInazu
joins
@matthewkaemingk
and
@shadihamid
to discuss navigating religious and political differences.
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Many American Christians are missing out on a crucial, even central, dimension of the church, writes
@millinerd
.
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“It was hard for me to accept this idea that productivity has to go down, and not just that, that it *should* go down.”
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
discuss the “unreasonableness” of fasting on a new episode of
#zealotspod
.
Watch the full episode:
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Our relationship to material goods determines our character, writes Brian Hamilton—a slow process of moral formation that we've forgotten in the utilitarian, systems-oriented approach that defines modern economic thinking.
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It is rare to find a person who says they are happy with the relationship they have with their devices. If these things are harming us all, how much more are they harming the most vulnerable?
@PhilipDBunn
reviews The Anxious Generation by
@JonHaidt
.
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Hospitality plays a central role in public memory, writes
@_wgthompson
in a new installment of The Welcome Table, for it is at our tables that we share and retell the stories that give form and substance to our collective identity.
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"Only people prepared to lose friends will prove good friends."
@JamesACMumford
makes the case for friendship built on challenge and truth-telling, not affirmation and non-judgmentalism.
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Dave Hillis writes about the grace and freedom that form the foundation of truly hospitable leadership.
"We are shaped by our relationality long before our rationality."
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Twice as many Canadians died by MAID in 2021 than all suicides combined.
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On a new episode of Conversing, Mark Labberton reflects on how sacred spaces can transform our understanding of the gospel’s invitation. What do our buildings communicate to others? To ourselves?
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On a new episode of
#zealotspod
,
@drmoore
discusses the political future of American evangelicalism and the rise of “secular” evangelical politics, exploring how evangelicalism has become politicized and secularized in American political life.
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Rule
#10
for the bookish life:
Find a place to read where you can learn the art of appearing still yet moving with great speed over vast distances, quiet yet in the full thrum of a resonant inner life.
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"What if loneliness is simply a condition of being human, whether Christian or otherwise?"
@myleswerntz
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🌷 Our spring issue is out now! Subscribe and get fresh, thought-provoking essays in a beautifully-designed format. It goes beyond empty pondering and instead looks at how we actually engage in the difficult work of being faithfully present in culture.
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We just sent our fall issue off to the printer! In this issue,
@KatecBowler
,
@JemarTisby
,
@LMSacasas
,
@_wgthompson
, and more explore the forces that dehumanize us—and what it looks like to respond with dignity and love.
Subscribe by Sept 30 to get a copy.
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Where is history headed? What kind of future did Jesus inaugurate, and how does it guide us now? How any one of us answers these questions says a lot about our sensibilities, our teleology, and our hope.
🐋 Subscribe now to get our fall issue!
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“Change happens when a small group of people finds a better way to live, and the rest of us copy them.”
@nytdavidbrooks
on moral ecologies and social change.
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We have some big news… Our new editor-in-chief is author, journalist, and thinker Anne Snyder!
@PhilanthropyRnd
@trinityforum
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"Collective infrastructural systems that are resilient, sustainable, and globally equitable provide the means for us to care for each other at scale. They are a commitment to our shared humanity."
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“Catholicism, in particular, and I think Christianity in general, should stand a little bit outside of partisan categories.”
@DouthatNYT
joins Mark Labberton to discuss how his faith and theological commitments ground his moral and political views.
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Why does society increasingly view forgiveness as something problematic, even unjust?
@timkellernyc
explores the reasons and offers a framework for recovering forgiveness.
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!
Today, we are excited to announce the addition of eight contributing editors to our masthead
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“I wonder whether I am witnessing the genuine adoption of an identity or a consumer for whom sampling the spice of nationalist fervour is just one of the commercial choices you’re offered when you purchase a cell phone.”
@PhilKlay
on proxy nationalism.
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We should seek brutal friends, friends who refuse to accept us as we are, writes
@JamesACMumford
.
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TODAY:
@marilynmcentyre
writes about the reasons to avoid church, and the reasons to look again.
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“If we don’t like some of the versions of masculinity currently on offer, it’s up to us to fix that, rather than to pathologize the idea of masculinity itself.”
@RichardvReeves
on what men are for.
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"Contemporary art was steeped in irony and cynicism, mixed with elitism and a fetishization of the art object. It seemed impossible to make something that was true." —
@PageauJonathan
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"Followers of Christ should be known for our hospitality. Instead, we have become known for how threatened we feel."
@JemarTisby
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We've been up to n̶o̶ good.
🧵 Comment has become an indispensable cultural reservoir for those who want to bring healing to our common life. Despite all the challenges facing public discourse today, when we look to our community of writers and readers, we have immense hope.
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"The biblical narrative includes a very important temporal pause button that the Dominionists ignore: we await the kingdom, we don’t impose it."
@james_ka_smith
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"Many women find that female bodies and female fertility are expected to be standardized and made 'safe' to be welcome in the world," writes
@LeahLibresco
.
How can we stop treating women's bodies as problems to be solved?
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“Like so many veterans, I’ve often wished that the public writ large would approach war with a sense of the vast human cost of the thing.”
@PhilKlay
on the age of proxy nationalism.
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"We have long theological and intellectual traditions that foreground the vanishing, that wrestle with mortality. But our traditions around birth are less reflective."
@jenniferabanks
writes about natality and the miraculous gift of new beginnings.
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“If [the anointing] is a sign of the gift of the Holy Spirit, that the king needs a wisdom beyond his own, it will be a sign that we too need wisdom beyond our own.”
@gtomlin
joins
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
to talk
#Coronation
.
Full episode:
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Home. It’s as much a feeling as it is a place. Even for those with idyllic childhoods, it becomes ground for negotiation. Our new issue delves into these dynamics, at the personal, communal, and national levels. Subscribe before May 15 to get your copy!
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“We are seeking to do what we at Comment are always seeking to do: to rehumanize our age, to respond with compassion, to nourish our collective longing for wholeness and belonging, order and freedom.”
Anne Snyder introduces our new issue on gender.
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In case you don't get our newsletter, we are VERY excited to welcome
@jwilson1812
as our interim guest editor for the SPRING 2019 issue! It's kind of like a Books & Culture throwback issue with LOTS of great reviews already in the works. Stay tuned for more!
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What is the connection between prayer and politics for Muslims and Christians?
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
challenge each other with a series of tough questions, and the results are illuminating.
Episode 11 of Zealots at the Gate is out now.
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"For each and every one of the ancient philosophers, the idea that we should love our enemies would have registered as self-evidently absurd."
@fxxfy
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"Followers of Christ should be known for our hospitality. Instead, we have become known for how threatened we feel."
@JemarTisby
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Kintsugi goes beyond restoration, to a new creation. It proves that something can be more beautifully broken and mended than it was before it even broke.
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"While football players are pointing skyward, giving God a bit of credit, the Jesus they claim to worship is outside the stadium."
Matthew Vos on the Super Bowl and idolatry.
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In our fall issue,
@LMSacasas
asks: How has our technological milieu affected our capacity to experience wonder?
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WRITE FOR COMMENT.
Our summer issue will explore SOCIAL ISOLATION. Are you affected by it? OR, are you creating healthy communities that combat it? No matter who or where you are, we want to hear your stories on the ground.
Interested? Send us a note: comment
@cardus
.ca
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In honour of
#MLKDay2018
, read
@tpcgregthompson
's EXCELLENT essay about Martin Luther King Jr., the friend we need, but do not want:
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The latest issue of Comment is available at 700+ stores throughout the United States and Canada. Find the magazine at Books-A-Million, Walmart, Barnes & Noble, Chapters/Indigo, and a growing number of independent bookstores.
Pick up a copy near you!
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James K.A. Smith and Tim Keller discuss: Why the church being the church is a gift to society.
@james_ka_smith
@timkellernyc
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The Israel-Hamas war is barely two weeks old and we are witnessing a collective religious failure. How should people interpret and respond to this political and religious cataclysm?
Join
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
for a special
#zealotspod
.
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We're pleased to announce a new project!
@BrkngGround
is a collaborative web commons that seeks to respond to this unusual moment by bringing together careful thinkers and dedicated doers steeped in Christian imagination.
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Brad East reviews
@audreywatters
's Teaching Machines, calling her a "secular prophet."
We might scoff at the idea that teachers can be made redundant by machines, but the prevalence of the idea says something dire about modern philosophies of education.
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“The scandal at the heart of Beaty’s book is the enabling organizations and the collapse of institutional ethics—a dangerous pragmatism married to a startlingly idealistic naïveté.”
@rjoustra
reviews
@KatelynBeaty
’s book Celebrities for Jesus.
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Congrats
@james_ka_smith
! The wait for the King continues, but in the meantime, *Awaiting the King* is here!!
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"Christian hope is not magic; it is not wish-fulfillment; it is not a technology for easy comforts."
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There are more slaves today than at any other point in history.
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"A secret prayer turned in me, a desire to participate fully in the life of the church as an artist, finally—integrating my faith with my art-making, making objects that were true not only in message and form but also in purpose." —
@PageauJonathan
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At a time when the forces of atomization seem irresistible, many are questioning: Is redemptive, unifying social change even possible? Join the
@trinityforum
and
@commentmag
on Oct 24 for an Evening Conversation with
@davidmbailey
&
@ahc
.
🎟 Register:
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“The notion that one could embrace an identity in Christ and leave behind one’s sense of place and cultural identity was, in the end, a delusion.”
@AlbertoLaRosa90
with a theology of migrant experience.
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“Leaders have drawn people from a faith that subordinates work to other ends, such as evangelism or contemplative piety, to a faith that sacralizes work, casting it in religious terms.”
David Robinson reviews Andrew Lynn's “Saving the Protestant Ethic.”
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We join those remembering and grieving the loss of our friend Timothy Keller. We extend our sincerest condolences to his family and friends.
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A snazzy new profile picture for us means one thing: we've confirmed our cover design for our FALL issue!
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.
@JemarTisby
reminds us that everybody has what Martin Luther King Jr. called a “somebodiness.” Because everybody bears the Creator’s image.
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Tired of the crusty tribalisms? Us too. Thankfully there's another way.
@nytdavidbrooks
in conversation with
@WestLondonMan
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“My definition of fundamentalism is the total rejection of doubt.”
Is secular fundamentalism a thing? Is doubt actually good?
@matthewkaemingk
and
@shadihamid
discuss on a new episode of
#zealotspod
.
Full episode:
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Can the American Left make space for deep religious commitment?
@ebruenig
joins
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
to discuss how people of faith contribute to secular politics while maintaining their “strange” religious identity.
#zealotspod
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Why is it that the church, which the final book of its most holy text indicates will be composed of people from every tribe, tongue, and nation, is often so unprepared to welcome demographic and cultural diversity?
@JemarTisby
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We need schools that aren't just producing cogs for the consumerist machine.
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"To forget the body is to forget our dependence, our frailty, our limitations. To forget these aspects of our embodiment is also to forget the value, indeed the necessity, of humility, generosity, care, patience, and mercy." —
@LMSacasas
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Can Muslims be feminists? Should they be? This week,
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
speak with
@Hadia_Mubarak
, a self-described Muslim feminist, about the role and place of women in Islam.
You won't want to miss this episode of
#zealotspod
.
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"In Christianity properly understood, there isn’t a sacred language. Some might say Latin was, but it wasn’t. The gospel can only really be heard in dialect."
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“Acceleration is a disease that promises victory over the crisis of decline but ends in spiritual disaster. The “good” future is a mirage. Once you get there, there is always another future to chase. You never get to rest. There is never enough.”
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While everyone's reacting to the headlines du jour, this is what building on 2,000 years of Christian social thought looks like:
LeBron James fooled all the Lakers with this no-look pass 😯
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Some tips for intellectual hospitality:
- Read widely.
- Cultivate curiosity.
- Don't engage with straw men.
- Allow people to change their minds.
- Avoid unnecessary provocation.
More on reviving intellectual hospitality here from
@CherieHarder
:
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“Dreher’s is a rhetorically powerful vision; an account that appeals to both the apocalyptic and the heroic impulses of our imaginations.”
But it’s also fundamentally fuelled by fear, Greg Thompson writes in his review of
@RodDreher
’s latest.
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"More and more, just having a space where people gather, especially people of different ages and ideologies, is shocking and very, very uncomfortable if people don’t practice that regularly."
@Tish_H_Warren
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"surprise us with the immensity of
what lies beyond our own awareness."
A blessing from
@KatecBowler
:
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"Our technological milieu has generated an environment that is inhospitable to the experience of wonder, an experience foundational to the pursuit of the highest human aspirations."
@LMSacasas
writes on refusing numbness and recovering wonder.
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Today we are thrilled to announce the exclusive early release of Breaking Ground, a stunning new volume edited by Anne Snyder and
@suzania
.
Created by
@commentmag
.
Published by
@PloughBooks
.
#breakinggroundbook
Shop now:
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We need schools that aren't just producing cogs for the consumerist machine.
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Is a “winsome” approach to persuasion naive? Are we playing a little *too* nice with the political ideas of secular opponents?
@jamesrwoodtheo1
joins
@shadihamid
and
@matthewkaemingk
on
#zealotspod
.
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"War is not as distant, incomprehensible, and otherworldly as many of us who have not experienced it on our own soil think."
Irena Dragaš Jansen reflects on Ukraine.
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“Enslaved people of African descent identified with the Israelites of Exodus”
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"If my own very small experience had such a powerful social and psychological pull, how does anybody who’s even a very minor social media celebrity have anything approaching a normal life?"
@jreimr
reflects on a tweet of his home library going viral.
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Why is it that the church, which the final book of its most holy text indicates will be composed of people from every tribe, tongue, and nation, is often so unprepared to welcome demographic and cultural diversity?
@JemarTisby
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Great day! Latest
@commentmag
, A CHURCH FOR THE WORLD, back from the printers. They're on the way!
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"A secret prayer turned in me, a desire to participate fully in the life of the church as an artist, finally—integrating my faith with my art-making, making objects that were true not only in message and form but also in purpose." —
@PageauJonathan
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