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“I never quite belonged.”

To be welcomed, says Mieke Vandersall, is not the same as to experience belonging.

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My ordination service was glorious.

A steamy, hot day where your clothing stuck to your body, we could barely even feel the humidity amid the expectant joy. Everyone dear to me was there in the tall, old sanctuary at First Presbyterian Church in the city of New York. Almost 20 years ago, and I remember it like yesterday. It was a service of worship with the music chosen with years of expectation that transcended every border and boundary....

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