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Tony Burke provides more details on his blog<\/a>, including that this organization will replace the York Christian Apocrypha Symposium with a conference that will move around to different locations, alternating between Canada and the United States.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"