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I heard Natalie Grant\u2019s<\/a> song \u201cHuman<\/a>\u201d on the radio today (not for the first time), and then two articles about her appeared on the CNN religion blogs, one focused on her recent work to combat human trafficking<\/a>, the other about her latest album<\/a>. <\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmKviWz0PT8?fs=1<\/a>\n

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I heard Natalie Grant\u2019s song \u201cHuman\u201d on the radio today (not for the first time), and then two articles about her appeared on the CNN religion blogs, one focused on her recent work to combat human trafficking, the other about her latest album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWe Gotta Do Better Than This<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I heard Natalie Grant's song "Human" on the radio today (not for the first time), and then two articles about her appeared on the CNN religion blogs, one\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/we-gotta-do-better-than-this.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Gotta Do Better Than This\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I heard Natalie Grant's song "Human" on the radio today (not for the first time), and then two articles about her appeared on the CNN religion blogs, one\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/09\/we-gotta-do-better-than-this.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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