Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ✨ Edmund…

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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. ✨ Edmund Burke (2014). Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace, p.12, Cambridge University Press
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