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Ethan Vesely-Flad is executive director of the Episcopal Church Publishing Company and editor of The Witness, a social justice publication founded in 1917 to address issues of faith, conscience and justice. The Witness publishes voices of progressive Christian and other faith-based activists from across the globe online at www.thewitness.org.
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