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A Compelling Witness

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Started July 24, 2026

Two election cycles ago, Ben Grizzle, a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs living in New York City with his family, saw a friend from high school share on Facebook that he had unfriended three people, two of them from his church, because of the rhetoric they were using. In the post, his friend expressed his Read more. The post A Compelling Witness appeared first on Christianity Today

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A Compelling Witness

Christianity Today (United States) | Jul 23, 2026

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