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Hey, welcome, and thanks for listening in today.

I think I have a pretty cool idea for you today.

I say think, because it's really, really new. About two hours ago, I ran across

a quote from about 100 years back, and I'm just intrigued by it. I'm starting to sense some

personal implications. There is a principle or two at play that I'm fairly excited to see how it will

get fleshed out in my life. And I was sitting there

at the desk and I thought, you know what? I think I'll flesh it out with you. I'll just get in here

and turn on the microphone and see if it comes together. Now on the one hand, if it doesn't work out,

if this thing just ends up not making sense, then I'll just delete it and you will not hear

any of this.

So I could probably record something completely ridiculous, like maybe I still believe in unicorns. But if it comes together like I really think that it will, then I will put this out on

Monday. You are listening to it right now and I probably need to go remove the unicorn bit.

So to go ahead and jump in and give it a go, it was in 1925 that this preacher over at the Westminster

Abbey Congregation in England named Cannon Donaldson made a list of seven social sins.

That list was published in a newspaper the next day. Within a couple of months,

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