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Authentic Community: From Chit Chat to Transparency

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What keeps our communities as deep as a casual chat in the church foyer?  The problem, as my friend Mark Buckner explains, is that we have competing needs: the need to be loved and the need to be respected.  It feels like I have to choose one or the other.  If people really know me, …

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Running in Church

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I was a bored and fidgeting six-year-old, attending a special program at our local Baptist church.  My older sister sat on my left and our neighborhood friend Russell Brooks sat on my right.  We stared ahead at the churchy proceedings and I asked Russell what the tank of water was in back of the stage. …

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