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The Very Rev. S. Chadwick Vaughn
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Missouri, "My Fair Lady," and the Mission of the Church

John 20:19-31

2nd Sunday of Easter - Year B

April 15, 2012

The Very Rev. Chadwick Vaughn (TEC)

You may wonder, as I have, what U.S. Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver, Eliza Doolittle, and Thomas the Apostle have in common.

To discern this, we need only listen to their own words to uncover a common denominator.

You first, Congressman Vandiver:

"I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."

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A study once showed that most of the wage earners, men and women, were in constant fear of losing their jobs. In this episode of Be Still and Know, The Rev. John R. Gunn writes, "The world provides no abiding security for anybody. Our only unfailing reliance is in God."

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