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Opinion: From “synodality” to “congregationalism” and back again

May 17, 2022 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 13

I agree with everything Larry Chapp says in his recent pieces on the problems of “synodality.” But, perhaps very slightly more hopeful than he is, I want to make some suggestions overlooked by many in […]

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