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The Merry-Go-Round

Mark 10:35-45

21st Sunday after Pentecost

October 21, 2012

Canon Caroline Westerhoff (TEC)

This past June, David McCullough Jr. gave a startling commencement address at Wellesley High School in Massachusetts, where he has been an English teacher for the last 26 years. He does not extol the virtues and achievements of his students; he does not heap the usual accolades upon them and send them off to an entitled future. Instead he tells them they are not special. They are not special because everyone is special. 

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