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Hope Podcast: Featuring Amy Brenneman, MRPL Candidate

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Hope Podcast: Featuring Jamie Feinberg, MDiv Candidate

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Hope Podcast: Featuring Julia Jackson, MDiv Candidate

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This week we sat down with fellow second year MDiv candidate Julia Jackson to talk about the ways hope and mortality are tied together, about the power of reading, and about the promise of otherwise.

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