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Today, we have the privilege of bringing you Rachel's story. Her integrity and desire for the

church to truly resemble God's kingdom shines brightly as she details both the spiritual

abuse and racial trauma that she experienced during her time at her church in Kansas City.

This episode is a little different in the fact that we have chosen to name the church

due to this being the third, completely unrelated story out of that congregation that has now been featured on this podcast.

Our hope is that shining light will give another opportunity to leadership to embrace humility, repentance, and true reconciliation.

I'm Jonah 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 Marseville bus.

And by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done. You either get on the bus or you get run over by the bus.

Those are the options.

But the bus ain't going to stop.

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