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Disrupting Complacency

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

As I was contemplating this fourth edition of our Being Spiritual Disrupters series, a conversation I had decades ago unexpectedly came to mind. It was one of those brief, rather mundane and insignificant exchanges that 

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