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The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Alan Hirsch

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Alan Hirsch
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 24
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University Teacher
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Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
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