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It's difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.

Barbara Brown Taylor

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Barbara Brown Taylor
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: September 21
Anglican Priest
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I miss the hot spots. I miss the hospital calls. I miss the nursing homes. I miss the really intimate human contact with other people, which I did nothing to earn.
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The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent.
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