Well, how about this from Chaucer to say something central about Emergent concerns:<\/p>\n
I would like to see an Emergent leader write a book on St Francis, for he was a powerful figure in the \u201cperform the gospel\u201d rather than just talk about it.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re putting our house on the market and I\u2019ve been painting all day and running errands and doing the sort of thing you have to do to make your house a little nicer looking. Tonight is a Department dinner \u2014 the whole gang of us: Boaz Johnson, Brad Nassif, and the newest member, Genevive Dibley.<\/p>\n
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