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finding our way again
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finding our way again
how we lost our way
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institutionalismmale hierarchy
anti-Semitismsyncretism with Greek
thoughtdeals with Roman politics
embrace of violenceConstantine’s cross
obsession with certaintycreedalism
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we turneda way
into
a
destination
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truthcorrectness
purity
we thought we had arrived.
maturity
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a brief history of
rediscovery
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desert fathers & mothersSt. Patrick & Celts
St. Francis & Claire Reformation
radical reformationsocial gospel
black & liberation theology
feminist & eco-theologytheology of multitude
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a generous orthodoxyChristianity worth believing
generative Christianity emergence Christianity
a new kind of ChristianityChristianity for the rest of us
new paradigm Christianitymissional Christianity
progressive Christianitythe next Christians
convergence ChristianityChristianity rediscovered
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postmodernpost-colonial
post-capitalistpost-industrial
post-christendompost-protestant
post-denominationalpost-institutionalpost-eurocentric
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finding our way again
3 dimensions
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finding our way again
1. a way of community
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1. a way of community
practicing one-anotherness
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1. a way of community
practicing leadership “among ...”
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1. a way of community
practicing the courage to differ graciously ...
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1. a way of community
what center holds us together?
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finding our way again
2. a way of spirituality
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2. a way of spirituality
why gather?public worship as group
spiritual formation
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liturgy: the work(out) of the people
bad liturgy: the checklist of the clergy
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ritual: using bodily action to bond to meaning
ritualism: action without meaning
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ritual: using bodily action to bond to meaning
ritualism: action without meaning
what meaning?what stories? what larger
narratives?
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A table of elitism and exclusion ...
reinforcing violent sacrifice?
or a feast of grace and reconciliation ...
recalling God’s self-giving?
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2. a way of spirituality
promoting secrecy:spirituality “in the closet”
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2. a way of spirituality
“guard your heart well, for from it flow the well-
springs of life.”
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finding our way again
3. a way of mission
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3. a way of mission
community and spirituality:
formation for missionbeing/belonging/
becoming for doing
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3. a way of mission
engaging disciples in the big 3:
planet, poverty, peace
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3. a way of mission
witness as with-ness
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3. a way of mission
salvation:saving the world
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fr. vincent donovan
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After some time among the Masai, Donovan described, with some disillusionment, the version of Christianity he and other Western, Euro-American missionaries had imported into Africa: “an inward-turned, individual-salvation-oriented, un-adapted Christianity” (8). He became so disillusioned with this approach that he felt the need to move away from the term salvation altogether. One paragraph in his book especially intrigues me:
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“Preach the gospel to all creation,” Christ said. Are we only now beginning to understand what he meant? I believe the unwritten melody that haunts this book ever so faintly, the new song waiting to be sung in place of the hymn of salvation, is simply the song of creation. To move away from the theology of
salvation to the theology of creation may be the task of our
time”
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salvation - not evacuation plan from damned
humanity
salvation = transformation plan for
damaged humanity, based on
God’s saving lovefor all creation.
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3. a way of mission
joining God in God’s saving love for all creation
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finding our way again
1. a way of community2. a way of spirituality
3. a way of mission
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finding our way again
1. a way of community2. a way of spirituality
3. a way of mission
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finding our way again
two ways: life & death
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finding our way again
we have a long way to go!
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finding our power again
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what you focus on determines
what you miss.
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what are we focusing on?the power we have?
the problems we have?
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a pub in London
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What’s missing today is a high-quality discourse on rethinking the design and evolution of the entire system from scratch.
- Otto Scharmer
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The quality of results produced by any system depends on the quality
of awareness from which the people in the system operate. (Otto
Scharmer)
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The quality of results produced by any system depends on the quality
of awareness from which the people in the system operate. (Otto
Scharmer)
ANXIOUS?ANGRY?
HOPEFUL?
JOYFUL?
DEFENSIVE?
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Death Resurrection
Burial
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Letting Go Letting Come
Letting Be
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Marching to the old drumbeat
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frantic, desperate activity
Marching to the old drumbeat
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Being still
frantic, desperate activity
Marching to the old drumbeat
pensive pacing
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finding our way again
Being still
frantic, desperate activity
Marching to the old drumbeat
pensive pacing
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Are we open?
Truly open?
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finding our power again
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pastor power
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pastor powerpeople power
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pastor powerpeople power
pastor-people power
refusing to be complicit in your own diminishment
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parent power
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parent powerkid power
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parent powerkidpower
family power
enlisting parents to teach a new kind of Christian faith
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music power
why do the fundamentalists have all
the good music?
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sermon powerstory power
setting yourself on firesetting the world on fire
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youth power
rediscovering Christianity as an empowered youth
movement
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diversity power
what will it take to face America’s original sin?
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faith power
becoming cynical about our cynicism
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Death Resurrection
Burial
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resurrection powerSpirit power
embodiment-of-Christ Christ-in-you
power
death isn’t the worst thing that could happen
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finding our power again
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finding our momentum again
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Three possible futures:
Continuing contraction
Extremist resurgence
Pregnancy
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Three possible futures:Continuing contraction
- Shrinking numbers- Wrinkling members- Low retention- Low evangelization- Constrained
leadership- Secure finances
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Three possible futures:
Extremist resurgence- Immigration fears- Western domination- Terrorism
fears/revenge- Playing to bases- New alliances (global,
ecumenical)
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Three possible futures:Pregnancy
- Theological reformation- Missional reorientation- Post-national, post-
partisan identity/ethos- Spiritual-social
movement(Peace, planet, poverty) - New alliances (global,
ecumenical convergences)
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we need a theology of
institutions, movements. and Communities
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Communities
Families, individuals, and organizations linked to a common environment, collaborating for the common good.
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Institutions:
Organizations which conserve the gains made by past
social movements.
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Social Movements
Organizations which make proposals or demands to current institutions to make progress towards new gains.
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Both movements and institutions...
Organize for their purposeNeed one anotherAre frustrated with one
anotherBenefit or harm communities
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Without movements ...
Institutions stagnate ...
Without institutions ...
Movements evaporate ...
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Some movementssuccessfully inject their values
into the institutions they challenge
Other movementscreate their own institutions,
or pass away
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Vital movementscall people to passionate,
sacrificial personal commitment
Sustainable institutionscreate loyalty across
generations through evocative rituals & traditions
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critical communitiesmovement visionaries
movement organizersmovements
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Parker Palmer’s 4 stages of social change
1. Divided no more
2. Communities of congruence
3. Going public
4. Alternative Rewards
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From Greg LeffelFaith Seeking Action: Mission
and Social Movements
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Movements unite people to create or resist change. Through them, individuals seek a common voice to challenge, social, political, economic and cultural powers; movements, in fact, multiply the power of individual action through their unique form of collective, non-institutional power. (47-48)
Social movements are non-institutionally organized human collectives, that put meaningful ideas in play in public settings, that actively confront existing powers through the strength of their numbers and the influence of their ideas, and that grow in size and power by inspiring others to act, in order to create or resist change (48)
A movement is “a segmented, usually polycephalus cellular organization composed of unites networked by various personal, structural, and ideological ties. (50)
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It takes collective, non-institutional (or prophetic) power to bring change to institutions.
You can’t change the center/inside/priestly without
proposals and pressure from the margins/outside/prophetic.
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Movements are diagnostic, prognostic, and motivational (51)
- They say what’s wrong- They say what’s needed- They motivate and mobilize for concerted action.
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Movements are context dependent.In certain periods, fundamental contradictions
in a society’s core understanding of itself create the possibility of widespread and
socially disruptive change. (52)
Movements exploit opportunity:1. An active interest among elites in changing the political structure2. Conflicts or corruption within elites3. Events that weaken established social control (war, disaster, economic collapse)
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Leffel’s 6 Characteristics of Vibrant Social Movements
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1. Opportunity Structure (Context Awareness)
Current restraining realities ...
in tension with ...
emerging opportunities.
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Opportunities:- Problems needing to be solved- Elites who hold power, resist change or promote negative change- Fissures, Problems among elites that make the status quo vulnerable- Values of the movement in conflict with values of elites- Potential advocates and allies in academic, civil society, arts, church, government, business, science, etc.
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2. Rhetorical Framing/Conceptual Architecture
Movement leaders have to make a conceptual and verbal case for their movement by answering questions like these:
How do we redefine reality?How do we disrupt or change current realities?How do we name our grievances? Articulate our positive vision for the way forward?How do we motivate and sustain dissatisfaction with the status quo, and affection for our shared vision?How do we justify our aims in terms of 5 lines of moral argument (Jonathan Haidt): justice, compassion, tradition, loyalty, and purity?How is the movement liberating? (liberal)How is the movement conserving? (conservative)
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3. Protest (messaging) strategyRaising awareness, attracting growing numbers of participantsCampaigns, tactics, deployments, making demands, public relations, sustaining conflict, forcing a crisis, managing internal tensions, managing stigmatization, showing results, maintaining momentum, not overreacting, defining acceptable level of disruption,
- Gaining attention - demonstrations, sit-ins, teach-ins, etc.- Building Networks of Participants and Allies- Wisely Identifying and Engaging Opponents
Movements must be convergent (creating broad, vigorous alliances) and insurgent (confronting real problems upheld
by elites and the systems that privilege them).
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4. Mobilization Structures & Strategies
- Authority and Decision-Making Structures- Transparency/Confidentiality, Communication Plans- Leadership development, Relational Development, Conflict Management Plans- Coalition development- Resource, Technology, Finance Mobilization and Management- Evangelism, recruitment, induction- Renewal and Increase of commitment- Awareness of levels of commitment (core, activists, supporters, listeners, opposition, indirect impact, unaware
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5. Movement Culture
“Movements are about changing a society’s lifeway; a movement itself
becomes an experimental field where a new way of life can be, to some degree, experienced and where the movement’s
ideals, values and common vision are put to the test.” (61)
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5. Movement culture
- Emotional vibe (fun, serious, angry, playful, heady, gutsy, etc.)- Feel of spaces, physical and digital- Songs, slogans- Virtues, values, moral ethos- Dress, Graphics, - Nicknames, terminology- Emotion, motivation, motion
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6. Participant Biography
How does involvement benefit - or harm - participants? How does the movement promote emotional and social sustainability ... avoiding burnout, squabbles, etc.How does it contribute to personal formation:- character- attitudes- knowledge- recovery from trauma- relationships- renewalWhat do participants gain from being involved?
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1. Opportunity Structure2. Rhetorical framing3. Protest (messaging) strategy4. Mobilization strategy5. Movement culture6. Participant Biography
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Jesus says the kingdom of God is like gardening (an organic movement) not warfare (institutional action): It spreads through seeds ... sown into systems to grow.
The seeds of the message.
The seeds of people who personally embody the message.
The seeds of communities who socially embody the message.
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Jesus seizes the opportunity structure provided by conflicted elites (Pharisees/Sadducees; Herodians/Zealots) and struggling masses (Galilee/Judea)
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He provides rhetorical framing on hillsides, in houses, on retreats, in public teach-ins, in debates, through parables, through rituals and practices. He repeats key themes - commonwealth of God, life to the full, life of the ages, liberation - rooted in dynamic tension with tradition.
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His protest (messaging) strategy includes public demonstrations (healings & miracles), teach-ins (sermon on mount), civil disobedience (turning tables), guerilla theatre (exorcisms), festivals (feasts & feedings), naming evil (woes), naming heroes (blessings).
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He develops a mobilization strategy based on 3, 12, 70, and multitudes. He entrusts freely with responsibility and expresses high confidence in his agents (greater things shall you do ...)
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Jesus and the 12- Intense time of modeling, relationship building and vision sharing- Contagious passion- Periodic sending and returning- Final sending/Succession insured- Warnings of expected trials, failures, conflicts- “Polycephalic” structure - connection without control- Self-organizing units- Welcoming of new leaders (Paul)- Reproducible expansion- Both individual agency and group agency (Paul, Philip, Antioch)- Both planning and spontaneity
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He associates his movement culture with love, joy, justice, risk, hope, creativity, courage, service, willingness to suffer, nonviolence.
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He provides his disciples challenge, rest, retreat, encouragement, recovery after failures. They testify that their participant biographies have been forever changed for the better.
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What spiritual movement is trying to be born among us today?
What are its demands/proposals?
What role might we play in its emergence?
What convergences are necessary for this movement to begin moving?
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3-D Mainliners +Progressive/Post
Evangelicals +Progressive Catholics +Peace Churches +Civil Rights Legacy
Churches +Emergence/Convergence
+Multi-faith collaborations
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Movements make proposals/demands
of participantsof communitiesof institutions
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Movements inspire a passion for the
possible.
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Movements move with the Holy Spirit -
- the Spirit of creation/creativity
- the Spirit of evolution- the Spirit of Jesus
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finding our momentum again
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ...
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ...
buildings, budgets
deficits, hierarchies
plans, pensions
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ...
doctrinal disputes
power struggles
desperate attempts
buildings, budgets
deficits, hierarchies
plans, pensions
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ...
doctrinal disputes
power struggles
desperate attempts
fear
playing it safe
running for cover
buildings, budgets
deficits, hierarchies
plans, pensions
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ...
doctrinal disputes
power struggles
desperate attempts
fear
playing it safe
running for cover
buildings, budgets
deficits, hierarchies
plans, pensions
personal ambition
political games
trivial pursuits
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ...
doctrinal disputes
power struggles
desperate attempts
fear
playing it safe
running for cover
personal ambition
political games
trivial pursuits
hostilityconflictanger
buildings, budgets
deficits, hierarchies
plans, pensions
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The kingdom of God is not a matter of food
and drink ... but of justice
peace
and joy
in the Holy Spirit
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finding our momentum again
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