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The Church as a thermostat

In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King makes an observation about the impact the early Christians had in the public square stating, “there was a time when the church was very powerful … the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.”

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The spirituality of the state fair: ‘When you celebrate humanity’

Jerry Hammer can’t remember life without the Minnesota State Fair, which this year runs Aug. 25 to Sept. 5. The 67-year-old grew up in St. Paul a block from the fairgrounds, started working in the greenhouse at 15 and has been general manager for 25 years. “The fair is saturated in generations of good memories,” he said. “It’s tangible.”

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