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\u201cIt was the spirit of the day,\u201d said Martin, who leads a renewal group called Vital Church Ministries near Dallas. \u201cWe were supposed to be broadening our theological horizons and getting in touch with our feelings and all that. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the lessons Father Kevin Martin learned in seminary have faded with time, but he remembers when the future Episcopal priests were taken to see Catherine Deneuve play a Paris prostitute in the soft-porn \u201cBelle de Jour.\u201d The late 1960s were heady times at Yale University\u2019s Berkeley Divinity School, he said. 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