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...That one telling comment — “we’re rooting for you” — at the outset of this brand new learning environment [very early in my time as an assistant curate] undid me. There wouldn’t be a mark at the end of this sermon. I wouldn’t be ranked. And I was in a community of people whose active hope and prayer for me, for me as a person in community with them, was that I would grow, learn and thrive.

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