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Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.
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How does one keep from “growing old inside”? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.
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Birth: | 28th May, 1920 |
Death: | 4th September, 2001 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Activist, Theologian |
Robert McAfee Brown was the son of a Presbyterian minister. Brown earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1943 and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister, in 1944. Brown earned a bachelor of divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1945, and served as a United States Navy chaplain from 1945 to 1946.
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