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Empty Altars: American Saints in a Cynical Age (#179)

You Have Permission

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I Want to Love but Look I Have a List of Baptists

I find it odd that we have to contrive spaces to tell the people that animate and inspire us These stories we tell like one of the bits I don't know if it would make it on my opening talk But I had a student that was in edmoor that was looking at The changing nature of our idols Right and so found cool survey data of 16 to 18 year olds naming the five most Influential people to them over time. And between what you saw shift is the likelihood that more than one of the five people or someone they know Dropped dramatically. They now say martin luther king mother tereesa, but those kind of things were because they just happened to be hanging

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