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Thank you, Mike. A beautiful last sentence, if I may say so. I think a Quaker, for instance, someone who has traditionally been a little suspicious of ecclesiastical authority, and being told what to think and believe, would tend to agree with Kallistos Ware….
Thanks, Tom – I think I’d agree with your Quaker!