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Every Christian should be both conservative and radical conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

John Stott

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John Stott
Age: 90 †
Born: 1921
Born: April 27
Died: 2011
Died: July 27
Anglican Priest
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Missionary
Theologian
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London
England
John Robert Walmsley Stott
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Conservative
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