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Departures and Arrivals
I was born into an American Baptist family to a mother who played the church organ and a father who was a deacon and the church treasurer. Both of their parents had been Baptists, including a maternal grandfather who was a Baptist minister. I was ordained to the American Baptist ministry in my home church, and I have been a member of an American Baptist church from the time I was baptized as a teenager until today–with the exception of a three-year sojourn as a member of a non-Baptist church. The one and only reason for this "change in affiliation" is that my wife and I wanted to be members of a congregation in the community where we lived, and there was no American Baptist church there. After three years, we chose to resume our membership in a new American Baptist congregation when they called a new pastor. If I had been born in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, I would probably be a Muslim. On the other hand, if I had been born in Fukushima, Japan, I might be Shinto or Buddhist, or b
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