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    What Makes Humans Sacred?
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    Pursuing Happiness
    How my sister with Down syndrome can help Richard Dawkins boost the sum of human joy, and what a stint volunteering at a German maternity hospital taught me about the gift of community.
    Erna Albertz
    Essay
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    Building the Jesus Movement
    In this interview, Plough asks Shane Claiborne what he’s learned about communal living, how marriage has changed him, why millennials are leaving Christianity, and his newest mission: abolishing the death penalty.
    Shane Claiborne
    Interview
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    Stewarding Mercy
    How should Christian churches respond to the ongoing, urgent challenge of the refugee crisis? And what does the New Testament have to say about what the church’s political witness should be and how it can be lived out?
    Roger Mielke
    Essay
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    Gardening with Guns
    In the United States, the only country with more guns than people, gun violence features daily in the news. It was while watching the news several years ago that a creative young Mennonite came up with a very different way to use guns...
    Sam Hine
    The Doers
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