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God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

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Eric Weiner
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: January 1
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the United States of America
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