But when an organization acts in bad faith like this, I'm always left wondering why.
What isn't known yet?
What was the thought process on playing it cute?
Why not just be honest with everyone?
The root of every spiritual error is believing ourselves to be righteous. To consider ourselves righteous is to leave God, the only righteous one, out in the cold.
This story took many months of work. It's a story about war and PTSD, but also about our noxious, partisan political climate and how it hurts real people who deserve so much better.
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