John Buchanan presented the following lecture at Campbell University, Buies Creek, North Carolina, in January 2015. People are curious about clergy. Even people who are not particularly church-oriented regard ministers and priests as curiosities. They think we are somehow fundamentally different from everybody else; that we are untouched by the normal matters of life that […]
One Wild and Precious Life
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