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The Three Words That Changed Everything

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In 1952, a young minister named Will Campbell sat in a segregated diner in Nashville, laughing with his white colleagues while a Black seminary student...

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2 Samuel 12:13

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Three Words That Changed Everything

In 1987, a cardiac surgeon in Portland named Dr. Raymond Kelley made an error during a routine bypass that left a forty-year-old mother partially paralyzed....

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