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Gay and lesbian Christians are in the awkward position of trying to explain themselves to two mutually hostile audiences

These daily meditations from best-selling author Barbara Crafton - wife

with those who are dying

the completion of God's creative vision

the words of Rumi and other Sufi poets

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