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Before we get into today's episode, I want to point you back to a series we released last summer out of the Austin Stone. If you haven't listened to those episodes yet, I really

want to encourage you to go back and do that. Those stories laid a lot of groundwork, and the more

voices we hear, the harder it becomes to call any of this a coincidence.

You can find that series wherever you're listening right now. Just scroll back in our feed.

The upcoming episodes will be featuring stories from people involved with the Stone's missions arm. Today we are honored to share Dominique's story. She came to the Stone as a teenager,

threw herself into the church's missions world, lived in community housing,

went through intensive discipleship programs, and somewhere along the way, started asking

the questions that the system didn't want her asking. Her story touches on race, on gender,

and on the kind of spiritual pressure that gets dressed up as opportunity. It also touches on

what it actually costs a young woman to try and find herself

inside an institution that was never really built with her in mind. With that, I'm Johnah Harris,

and this is The Bodies Behind the Bus podcast.

I am all about blessed subtraction.

There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Marsville bus.

And by God's grace it'll be a mountain by the time we're done.

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