Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, afte…

Stanley Hauerwas
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Consider the problem of taking showers with Christians. They are, after all, constantly going on about the business of witnessing in the hopes of making converts to their God and church. Would you want to shower with such people? You never know when they might try to baptize you. ✨ Stanley Hauerwas (2001). The Hauerwas Reader, p.521, Duke University Press
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