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Review: You Never Step Into the Same Pulpit Twice

Exclude from home pageBNG staff  |  December 1, 2022

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You have to love the title of Ron Allen’s new book: You Never Step into the Same Pulpit Twice. It’s a riff on Heraclitus’ famous saying about the nature of change.

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