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The most creative social strategy we have to offer is the church. Here we show the world a manner of life the world can never achieve through social coercion or governmental action. We serve the world by showing it something that it is not, namely, a place where God is forming a family out of strangers.

Stanley Hauerwas

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Stanley Hauerwas
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: July 24
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