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Ruth Graham

@publicroad

8 months

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Ruth Graham

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1 year

Calling Lent "Mark Wahlberg's 40-Day Challenge" from now on

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Mark Wahlberg is talking about Lent on the Today show and this lower third is killing me

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excited to announce I'm writing a 500-page book about this Easter post from an LA megachurch pastor

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Just got a package. My husband, a freelancer, sent himself a box of Harry & David pears with an encouraging note for the holidays.

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Walked up to my hotel room this weekend and this was the room next door.

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2 years

everyone should have one topic they insist on tweeting about even though none of their followers have ever expressed the slightest interest or validation

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3 years

I respect it

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4 years

@thatlukeperson @dankois Love this. My then-4-year-old drew a portrait of my mom that included her intestines.

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1 year

It's nice that we're gradually adding a layer of resentment and dissatisfaction to every human experience

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Europe's oldest known person, a nun named Sister André, beat the virus and turns 117 today. Her lunch menu today includes foie gras with hot figs, roasted capon, Roquefort, baked Alaska, port wine, Champagne, and "maybe a few glasses of red wine."

A French Nun Turns 117 After Knocking Down Covid-19 (Published 2021)

Sister André was expected to celebrate her victory against the virus and her birthday on Thursday with a feast, and a glass of Champagne.

www.nytimes.com

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Imagine Jesus coming to your house, you have a great conversation, you give away half your money, you make amends, he blesses you….and then you’re immortalized in one of the catchiest songs in human history as a “wee little man”

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1 year

Amy Grant getting soft-canceled for defying conservative evangelical expectations …the 90s are back!

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Amy Grant announced that she & her husband Vince Gill are going to host a same-sex wedding on their farm for her niece. Amy is quoted as saying, “Jesus you just narrowed it down to two things: love God & love each other.”

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3 years

Journalism tip: When writing a story about complicated people who may who do both good and bad things, add either "(This was good.)" or "(This was bad.)" at the end of every paragraph, and then state clearly in the final graf who was good and who was bad overall. Hope this helps

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Ruth Graham

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4 years

And he took the No Contact Communion Host Dispenser, gave thanks and pulled the Gold Tone Dispenser trigger, saying, “This is my body, sold separately.”

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Ruth Graham

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4 years

I've lived in New York City and in rural America and sorry if this sounds inflammatory, but they're both great in their own ways

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3 years

Scoop: Bethany Christian Services, one of the largest adoption and foster agencies in the country, will begin working with LGBTQ families nationwide effective immediately.

Major Evangelical Adoption Agency Will Now Serve Gay Parents Nationwide (Published 2021)

The decision comes as more cities and states require organizations to accept applications from L.G.B.T.Q. couples or risk losing government contracts.

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Graham

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3 years

New from me: When pastor Carl Lentz was fired from the global megachurch Hillsong's New York branch last month, the church cited "moral failures" and he quickly confessed to infidelity. But there's so much more to this story.

The Rise and Fall of Carl Lentz, the Celebrity Pastor of Hillsong Church (Published 2020)

A charismatic pastor helped build a megachurch favored by star athletes and entertainers — until some temptations became too much to resist.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

one of the worst uses of "spoiler alert" I've seen in the wild

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4 years

It's my first week reporting on religion, faith and values at The New York Times. Send me tips and story ideas! 🙏

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"It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal." In a new Facebook post, Franklin Graham lambasts the 10 Republicans who voted for impeachment.

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4 years

I have some news!

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Good news for reader of The New York Times: our already strong religion reporting is getting stronger with the arrival of Ruth Graham of Slate. Welcome her and prepare to be wowed.

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Jerry Falwell Jr. posts a vaccination selfie. "Please get vaccinated so our nutcase of a Governor will have less reasons for mindless restrictions!"

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All of this could have been avoided if a small percentage of people making fun of Infinite Jest read up to two books a year.

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3 years

Obviously the technology isn't there yet, but I have a crazy dream that someday a church website might be able to clearly state its denomination

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3 years

Jacob Lawrence, “Palm Sunday.”

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1 year

Mankind is not meant to live this way. Sickening

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3 years

timeline cleanse

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3 years

Another pathetic puff piece…really sad to see what’s become of this paper

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As someone looking at a lot of houses right now, I can't think of a bigger aesthetic influence on this country in the last decade than Chip and Joanna Gaines

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3 years

These two letters to the editor in the conservative evangelical magazine World illustrate the bind that a lot of evangelical institutions have been in for the last four years.

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4 years

It’s time for a National Conversation about original sin

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Statement signed by 223 faculty and staff at evangelical Wheaton College condemns the "vicious lies, deplorable violence, white supremacy" and "blasphemous abuses of Christian symbols" on display in Washington last week.

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4 years

Osteen’s congregation is extremely diverse, but he is also assiduously apolitical. Interesting:

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New issue of the conservative evangelical newsmagazine World has a critical cover story on Q, with a focus on how evangelicals are attracted to the movement and how churches have been slow to respond.

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3 years

I got one of my mom's best jokes into The New York Times.

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3 years

What a life! And I love this "Lord of the Flies" scenario—six teen boys stranded on an island for more than a year—that turned out exactly the opposite.

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2 years

“That’s the Nutcracker” — guy next to me at “The Nutcracker” when the Nutcracker first comes onstage

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Scoop: Liberty University opted not to renew Charlie Kirk's contract at the Falkirk Center. The unconventional think tank, which is now missing both halves of its portmanteau (Falwell + Kirk), will be renamed the Standing for Freedom Center.

Conservative Activist Charlie Kirk Leaves Liberty University Think Tank (Published 2021)

The Falkirk Center, named for its founders, Jerry Falwell Jr. and Charlie Kirk, was the center of evangelical Trumpism. Now, both are gone.

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Graham

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3 years

When you start talking with people at Hillsong, you hear a lot of shocking stories about a church culture that worshiped wealth, and volunteers who catered to leaders as royalty. But in the end, this is the detail that stands out most to me.

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Ruth Graham

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2 years

That's a church. You invented a church.

SoulCycle Without the Bike: Here Comes Peoplehood (Published 2022)

For their second act, the fitness entrepreneurs Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler are building a company centered on workouts for the self.

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Graham

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3 years

The "Twitter isn't real life" conversation is a good excuse for me to point out this church mini-trend:

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3 years

Finally, a chip for people who love Doritos

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4 years

Wow, very uncool, this school needs to realize it’s the 21st century and tattoos are totally mainstre—

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Ruth Graham

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2 years

If your pastor doesn't talk about the Don't Worry Darling press tour this Sunday, find 👏 a 👏 new 👏 church 👏

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I won’t climb but you can’t tell me how to feel

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3 years

The state of California forcibly sterilized 20,000 people over seven decades, including children as young as 11, disabled people, poor people, and women in prison.

‘You Just Feel Like Nothing’: California to Pay Sterilization Victims (Published 2021)

More than 20,000 people, many of them disabled, poor or people of color, were forced to undergo the procedure under the state’s decades-long eugenics program.

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Graham

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4 years

My child seems to think any document I have open on my laptop goes straight into print, and she's admirably cautious about it. "Can I type, but NOT in the New York Times?"

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4 years

Girl, are you in the National Film Registry? Because you are culturally, historically or aesthetically significant

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Turns out that when parents spout lines like “I’m so proud to be your mom,” “I love you,” blah blah blah, they not only mean it, they’re attempting to communicate an all-consuming, almost terrifying tenderness that in fact no words could capture...wild stuff

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3 years

Anonymous sources should be avoided whenever possible, but sometimes they are the only way to reveal information that is absolutely vital to the public interest.

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2 years

Wait for it…

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same

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First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress says he and his staff “are neither offering nor encouraging” members to pursue religious exemptions from vaccine mandates. “There is no credible religious argument against the vaccines.”

First Baptist’s Robert Jeffress: ‘There is no credible religious argument against the vaccines’

As Americans increasingly seek religious exemptions from COVID-19 vaccine mandates, many faith leaders are telling them no. With more employers imposing the...

www.dallasnews.com

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Ruth Graham

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2 years

I’ll probably delete this thread, because it’s personal, but it has me thinking (among other things) about how houses of worship are places to spend time with people at every stage of life. One room, once a week, the whole span of life. A small good thing.

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3 years

Laverne Wimberly has dressed up for virtual services at Metropolitan Baptist in Tulsa since last March. "I just decided at that point I’m just going to get dressed as if I was going to church, so I would not get into the habit of just slouching around."

Churchgoer, 82, has dressed up for 52 weeks of VIRTUAL church services

Dr. Laverne Wimberly, 82, has been attending Metropolitan Baptist Church in Tulsa online since March 2020. Each week, she dresses up in a nice outfit, complete with a colorful hat and jewelry.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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2 years

Watching “The Piano” and found an error: the film is set in the 19th century, but the piano composition Holly Hunter plays throughout the movie is the score to “The Piano,” from 1993

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Ruth Graham

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2 months

Everyone who reads this thinks they would never fall for a scam like this, but the truth is you would. You just have no idea how you will react when your emotions are toyed with to this level. Everyone is capable of being abused, manipulated, and scammed.

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3 years

“Everyone dies, their bodies rot, and every face becomes a skull.” I loved talking with Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble, and I have thought about my own death at least once a day since we met ☠️

Meet the Nun Who Wants You to Remember You Will Die (Published 2021)

Suffering and death are facts of life: “Everyone dies, their bodies rot, and every face becomes a skull.”

www.nytimes.com

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Ruth Graham

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4 years

Democrats for Life has a full-page ad in The New York Times today signed by 100+ current & former elected Dems concerned that "many Democratic leaders support policies on abortion that are radically out of line with public opinion. ... The Democratic Party is alienating voters."

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Pure and total delight! A perfect letter!

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4 years

The video of the president walking to the front of St. John's Church and spending several long seconds essentially modeling with a Bible in various poses is one of the strangest things I've ever seen.

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just realized this is a creed

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Shopping for kids’ diaries and many of them now have themes of “empowerment” or “gratitude.” Complete misunderstanding of the product. Diaries are for self-pity and complaining about one’s enemies.

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The Twitter experience

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2 years

Taking the week off to think about this slogan

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@MattZeitlin new all-purpose blessing: "May every piece in your upcoming collection point to the Eternal One"

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This is why I choose recyclable paper babies whenever possible 😇

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Front page photo today of a Christmas Eve service between two churches destroyed by a tornado this month in Mayfield, Kentucky.

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Incredible reply, just absolutely primo stuff

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Good luck getting any copy editors to move in

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I live so far from civilization that I only get Sunday’s paper delivered on Monday, so this is belated, but: A1!

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2 years

welcome to On Being with your host Dua Lipa

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4 years

The People of Praise is not a cult, and it's not a church. I reported on what it is.

Inside the People of Praise, the Tight-Knit Faith Community of Amy Coney Barrett (Published 2020)

Even for a conservative religious community, the People of Praise is notable in how deeply embedded members are in one another’s lives.

www.nytimes.com

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"It's been the best thing I’ve ever had happen to me — marrying Rosalynn and living together for so long, growing to know each other more and more intimately every day in married life.”

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4 years

My faith grows stronger every time I read about this Cincinnati megachurch's brand positioning

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2 years

Casually strolling down to receive the eucharist in these

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4 years

Today was my last day at Slate and then this happened at like 5pm:

Why That Falwell Jr. Yacht Photo Was the Final Straw

“Liberty’s board has shown us that their only public convictions relate to alcohol and sex.”

slate.com

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3 years

It's official now: I'm moving to Texas! I love Dallas, and am very excited for the reporting to come.

NYTimes Communications

@NYTimesPR

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. @NYTNational announces its new Texas team. @edjsandoval , @jdavidgoodman , Ruth Graham ( @publicroad ) will report from the state, edited by @jamiestockwell , leading our coverage to new levels of ambition and breadth.

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In Concord, NH, five Boogaloo Boys are outside the statehouse, outnumbered by media. They only have a few fliers because their printer had issues.

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2 years

when I do a bad tweet

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Spending the morning of my 40th birthday waiting in the parking lot for the liquor store to open, quietly singing along as the radio plays “Smooth” by Rob Thomas featuring Carlos Santana. Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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The spokesman for the National Religious Broadcasters, @dandarling , urged his fellow Christians to get vaccinated. Today, he was fired for violating its "policy of remaining neutral about COVID-19 vaccines."

NRB spokesman Dan Darling fired after pro-vaccine statements on 'Morning Joe'

(RNS) — Daniel Darling, senior vice president of communications for the National Religious Broadcasters, was fired Friday (Aug. 27) after refusing to say his pro-vaccine statements were mistaken.

religionnews.com

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3 years

the eternal struggle

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Incredibly upsetting night at the symphony …. totally lost it, started shouting, stormed out. You had to be there!!

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Remarkable analysis by Pew: 16% of white Americans who did NOT identify as evangelical in 2016 and who expressed a warm view of Trump began describing themselves as evangelical by 2020.

More White Americans adopted than shed evangelical label during Trump presidency, especially his...

A new analysis of survey data finds that there has been no large-scale departure from evangelicalism among White Americans.

www.pewresearch.org

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RL Stine blurbed the Odyssey.

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75% of parenthood is secretly throwing things in the trash, and then pretending you have no idea how they got there when you fail

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When a Soulmate Says No But an Editor Says Yes

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Tag yourself

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My story about the men of @F3Nation is on today’s front page.

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leaving my family and setting my house on fire to devote more time to thinking about the words "this is my son nestor"

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Checking in on Josh Harris of “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” who is on a ~journey~

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OK OK, there was a convention at the hotel and their members had a patriotic door-decorating contest

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My article about @pursuedbytruth is on the front page of today’s paper ☠️

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Two big topics on here this weekend are Kyrsten Sinema and Christian cinema

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There is an older man in my small church who sits in the back row, so is the last to come forward to receive the Eucharist. He moves very slowly, with a walker. He could receive in his pew, but he makes his way forward every single week. Everyone is happy to wait, of course. 1/

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Hillsong doesn’t look like a traditional church, and Lentz prided himself on not looking like a traditional pastor. He preached in a Saint Laurent leather jacket, ripped jeans and a low-cut T-shirt. His memoir mentions his aversion to khakis ~twice~.

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