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Still, when a group of religious leaders in Ohio held two days of meetings in Cincinnati recently to talk about economic and racial justice, issues usually associated with the political left, there was Beard, a fourth-generation Pentecostal<\/a> preacher with a disarming smile, a shaved head and a set of convictions that knock holes in the stereotypes about white evangelical Protestants.<\/p>\n

\u201cConservative biblical interpretation requires embracing the text,\u201d Beard said during a break in a daylong symposium on racial equity, a special concern of his. That, he said, \u201cmight push us to what society calls progressive engagement.\u201d
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