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The Journal of Christian Ministry

The Journal of Christian Ministry (JCM) is an annual publication of The Association for Doctor of Ministry Education (ADME). The purpose of this journal is to encourage theological reflection regarding the training for and practice of Christian ministry at the highest level. While recognizing and appreciating the religious diversity that exists across the globe, this journal, as its name implies, recognizes the fundamental uniqueness of Jesus Christ.

April 2, 2020
Welcome to ADME: What We All Need Most Right Now
The vitality of a ministry flows from the inside out....
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April 2, 2020
2020: Together in Prayer: Group Spiritual Direction
Our constituency expressed increasing hunger for spiritual nourishment...
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April 2, 2020
2020: A Guide to Theological Reflection–Book Review
The reflection loop closes the gap between your understanding of God’s truth a...
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April 2, 2020
2020: Hospitable Learning Spaces
Creating a climate where students can contribute to, and benefit from, the DMin ...
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April 2, 2020
2020: Leadership in Christian Perspective–Book Review
A refreshing and systematic look at servant leadership....
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March 26, 2020
In Memory of David A. Thommen
In Memory of David A. Thommen...
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April 12, 2019
2019: Character Development: Core Training in a Diverse Community
DMIN programs are unique in their intended balance between head, hands, and hear...
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March 28, 2019
2019: Latino-ization of the Church in the United States
The Pew Research Center summarized its findings about Latinos and the transforma...
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March 27, 2019
2019: With DMin Students, the Future is Now
A naked man wandered into a worship service. One of our students, the church’s...
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March 27, 2019
2019: The Spies in Numbers 13 as a Research Process
Social science research can be said to involve spiritual discernment and the per...
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March 26, 2019
2019: Staying Fresh in Ministry: Reflections on Hupomoné
Pastoral burnout, blowup, and dropout is an alarming issue in contemporary minis...
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March 25, 2019
2019: Servants and Fools – Book Review
Given the mission of Doctor of Ministry programs to develop theologically reflec...
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March 24, 2019
The Best DMin Projects of the Year – 2018-19
What kinds of projects are DMin students doing at schools represented by ADME? W...
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October 24, 2018
2018: ADME On Cultural Intelligence
From its earliest days, the Church has struggled to be in the world but not of i...
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October 12, 2018
2018: Insider Jesus – Book Review
“Insider movements” are a growing phenomenon in the 10/40 window of Africa a...
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April 4, 2018
2018: Action Research Ethics for DMin Students
Research influences its context. While careful researchers try to minimize this ...
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April 4, 2017
2018: The Future of DMin Education
It was a long evening. It was about a new, very well designed, cohort model DMin...
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April 3, 2017
Action Research for DMin Projects
In this article we outline an extended and practical definition of Action Resear...
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April 2, 2017
Four Trends That May Portend the Future for ATS Enrollment
This article highlights four enrollment trends among ATS seminaries that may por...
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April 2, 2017
Emerging Issues in Assessment
Drawing on the author’s experiences working with and for the Association of Th...
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March 7, 2017
Transforming Theological Education – Book Review
Dr. Perry Shaw suggests in the preface of his "Transforming Theological Educatio...
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March 7, 2017
The Dialogical Spirit – Book Review
Amos Yong hosts a dialogue of contemporary voices representing a spectrum of thi...
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March 7, 2017
Redeeming Administration – Book Review
Some people are born administrators. For the rest of us, it’s a steep learning...
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March 6, 2017
Great Commission, Great Compassion – Book Review
"Ultimately, this book is about choices." Those familiar with the published work...
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March 6, 2017
Faith on the Road – Book Review
In his book "Faith on the Road," Rieger urges the reader to consider the migrant...
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March 6, 2017
Canoeing the Mountains – Book Review
"How do you canoe over mountains?" asks Tod Bolsinger. "You don’t. If you want...
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March 6, 2017
Broken and Whole – Book Review
Stephen Macchia, founding president of Leadership Transformation and director of...
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March 6, 2017
Apostles of Reason – Book Review
"Secular intellectuals have not been kind to the evangelical mind. They are incl...
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March 6, 2017
Adult Learning – Book Reviews
A deliberate and delicate balance of principle and practice permeates the text....
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March 6, 2017
Note from the Editor – 2017
Welcome to the 2017 (Volume 6) edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
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November 25, 2013
Assessing Self and Ecclesial Contexts Through Family Systems
This paper demonstrates that engaging the writings of family systems theorists M...
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October 10, 2013
The Development of DMin Concentration Standards
The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min) degree is the most popular terminal degree offere...
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October 4, 2013
Ministry in Diverse Communities
In several thought-provoking plenary sessions, Dr. Rah emphasized the temptation...
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October 4, 2013
Persuasive Pastoral Leaders
The art of persuasion is a competency rooted in awareness of what counts as know...
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October 4, 2013
The Intersection of Burmese, Korean, and American Cultures
Drawing on the author’s experiences working with DMin students at Central Bapt...
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October 4, 2013
Welcome to the 2009 Inaugural Edition of JCM!
The Journal of Christian Ministry (JCM) is a publication of The Association for ...
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October 4, 2013
Critical Issues in Church Revitalization
George Barna, founder and president of Barna Research Group, has been studying C...
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October 3, 2013
Role of Theological Reflection in DMin Projects
This paper proposes a narrative approach to theological reflection that better s...
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September 5, 2013
Narratives of Leadership Anxiety
So begins the portrayal of an anxious young captain, commanding his first ship, ...
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June 13, 2013
Faith as Doubting Belief
This paper is a personal reflection revealing the author’s ideas of faith and ...
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May 1, 2013
Missional Church and the DMin
It is the thesis of this essay that educating clergy in the absence of focal att...
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April 11, 2013
Farewell to Good Friends – 2013
May God continue to guide and empower you as you continue yours important servic...
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April 5, 2013
Not Ashamed of the Gospel
This paper argues that conversion is best construed as the willingness of a conv...
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March 24, 2013
The Hardest Sermons You’ll Ever Have To Preach – Book Review
Cancer. Suicide. The death of a child. As much as we wish we could avoid tragedi...
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March 9, 2013
Preaching the Gospel of Matthew – Book Review
Stanley P. Saunders, Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theologica...
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March 6, 2013
The Integrated Church – Book Review
When Jesus returns to this earth, he will receive a church that is “without sp...
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February 12, 2013
“Picturing” Lay Ministry
2013 recipient of 'The Journal of Christian Ministry Award of Excellence' for ou...
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February 12, 2013
Building Below the Waterline – Book Review
With a plethora of books available on leadership in today's market, this book on...
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January 30, 2013
Church Administration – Book Review
This book might just as well be titled, 'Almost Everything You Need to Know Abou...
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January 6, 2013
Finding Faithful Elders and Deacons – Book Review
Who should serve the church as elders and deacons? And what are the essential el...
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January 5, 2013
2013 – Editorial Board
The 2013 Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christian Ministry....
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June 5, 2012
Life is Mostly Edges – Book Review
Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller weaves his life into a masterpiece mem...
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May 30, 2012
Making Confession, Hearing Confession – Book Review
In 1979 I began my ministry as a newly ordained priest in the Episcopal Church i...
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May 4, 2012
Nelson’s Preacher’s Sourcebook – Book Review
The preacher’s constant companion is the relentless approach of next Sunday’...
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April 19, 2012
Faithful Disagreement – Book Review
Out of her experience with the Theological Task Force on Peace, Unity and the Pu...
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April 18, 2012
The Strategically Small Church – Book Review
Brandon O’Brien challenges the prevailing image of a successful Christian loca...
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April 11, 2012
Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture – Book Review
Defending the Faith, Engaging the Culture, is a collection of papers in which th...
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March 23, 2012
Who Made The Moon? – Book Review
When looking at the existing literature on the subject of science, and specifica...
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March 20, 2012
Pastoral Ethnography and DMin Education
The term “pastoral ethnography” describes the intentional use of ethnographi...
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March 18, 2012
Becoming an Anti-racist Church – Book Review
Joseph Barndt addresses racism in the Christian Church head on. He firmly declar...
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March 16, 2012
Caring Cultures – Book Review
In Caring Cultures: How Congregations Respond to the Sick, Susan Dunlap breaks n...
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March 15, 2012
Leading from the Sandbox – Book Review
Built upon his previous work in High Impact Church Boards, T. J. Addington provi...
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March 14, 2012
5 Ministry Killers and How to Defeat Them – Book Review
What an intriguing title for a volume directed to ministers! The sub-heading sum...
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March 14, 2012
Christian Formation – Book Review
As a D.Min. Director whose academic field is Christian Education, this is a most...
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March 7, 2012
The Universal Monk – Book Review
Amid the many books published in recent years on the relevance and application o...
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March 6, 2012
Ethnographic and Family Systems Perspectives
This paper argues that although the fields of ethnography and Bowen family syste...
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March 5, 2012
Welcome to JCM 2012 (Vol 4) – The Importance of Pastoral Ethnography
Welcome to the 2012, 4th volume edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
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March 4, 2012
Investigating the Practice of Christian Exorcism
C.S. Lewis wrote, “There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race...
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March 1, 2012
2012 – Editorial Board
The 2012 Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christian Ministry....
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January 25, 2012
Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry – Book Review
In Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry, Melissa M. Kelley dr...
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April 10, 2011
A Blueprint for Christian Discipleship – Book Review
Watson begins his book by taking stock of the current situation facing the churc...
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April 3, 2011
Conversational Evangelism – Book Review
Norman Geisler, a well-known author of apologetics among conservative Christians...
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March 30, 2011
Go Grow Your Church! – Book Review
Although organized topically, with each chapter titled after a specific practice...
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March 27, 2011
God is Good, God is Great – Book Review
If your parishioners think about their faith, they will appreciate you taking th...
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March 25, 2011
Lost and Found – Book Review
Lost and Found is a research-based volume to speak to the status of the younger ...
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March 22, 2011
Mad Church Disease – Book Review
What a title and how appropriate, Mad Church Disease - a title I wish I had thou...
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March 15, 2011
ReJesus – Book Review
A 'wild Jesus?' Exactly, say these two native Australians whose earlier writings...
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March 14, 2011
DMin Education in a Multicultural World
Adapted from lectures on Multiculturalism delivered to the Association for Docto...
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March 13, 2011
SimChurch – Book Review
In SimChurch Doug Estes takes as his basic assumption that the world has moved i...
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March 12, 2011
Theological Reflection as a Catalyst for Leadership Convergence
Theological reflection can be a major catalyst for convergence within the D.Min....
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March 8, 2011
The Bereavement Ministry Program – Book Review
Given the many demands placed upon pastors, and the hectic pace of life in whic...
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March 4, 2011
The Spirituality of Community – Book Review
Two words in the title of this book may have grabbed your attention as they did ...
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March 4, 2011
2011 – Editorial Team
The 2011 Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christian Ministry....
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March 1, 2011
Welcome to the 2011 Edition of JCM
Welcome to the 2011 (Volume 3) edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
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April 20, 2010
Some Reflections on Theological Reflection
All of us are aware of the kind of practical and anxious theological reflection ...
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April 18, 2010
Sacrifice the Leader – Book Review
As a leader, who among us has not felt like we have become the sacrifice when so...
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April 14, 2010
Soul Graffiti – Book Review
Through winsome stories, thought-provoking questions and the offer of engaging s...
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March 7, 2010
2010 – New Editorial Board
I am thrilled to announce the new Editorial Board of the The Journal of Christ...
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March 4, 2010
Welcome to the 2010 Edition of JCM
Welcome to the 2010 (Volume 2) edition of The Journal of Christian Ministry!...
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March 13, 2009
A Time for Healing – Book Review
Jody Seymour's book, A Time for Healing, is as the subtitle states, about overc...
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March 4, 2009
The New Conspirators – Book Review
At the mention of the emerging church movement, those of us in the so-called tra...
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March 4, 2009
Restoration of Reason – Book Review
Francis Bacon had it wrong. So claims Montague Brown, the Richard L. Bready Prof...
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March 4, 2009
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross – Book Review
Proclaiming the Scandal of the Cross: Contemporary Images of the Atonement is a ...
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February 28, 2009
Really Great D.Min. Programs–and Why They Are Critically Important Today
Doctor of Ministry programs are, in my opinion, far more important for the churc...
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February 27, 2009
Seminary Professors and the Leader-shaping Task: New Wine from Old Wineskin?
General Colin Powell defined the task of leadership this way: "Great leaders art...
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February 26, 2009
A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning – Book Review
A Concise Guide to Pastoral Planning is from the Concise Guide Series produced b...
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February 25, 2009
Attentive to God – Book Review
The framework stresses the cultivation of both "Vision and Discernment," after t...
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February 22, 2009
The Faith of Leap – Book Review
Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch have once again taken the task to challenge the ch...
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02 Apr

Four Trends That May Portend the Future for ATS Enrollment

This article highlights four enrollment trends among ATS seminaries that may portend that unknown future, plus a few more focused on the future...

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02 Apr

Emerging Issues in Assessment

Drawing on the author’s experiences working with and for the Association of Theological Schools, this essay reminds us that assessment is meaningful work....

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07 Mar

Transforming Theological Education – Book Review

Dr. Perry Shaw suggests in the preface of his "Transforming Theological Education" that a common outcome of seminary preparation is the transformation of...

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07 Mar

The Dialogical Spirit – Book Review

Amos Yong hosts a dialogue of contemporary voices representing a spectrum of thinkers and disciplines in search of "an effective model of Christian...

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07 Mar

Redeeming Administration – Book Review

Some people are born administrators. For the rest of us, it’s a steep learning curve....

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06 Mar

Great Commission, Great Compassion – Book Review

"Ultimately, this book is about choices." Those familiar with the published work of Paul Borthwick, which spans 30 years of research and writing,...

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06 Mar

Faith on the Road – Book Review

In his book "Faith on the Road," Rieger urges the reader to consider the migrant narrative and to recognize the variant power differentials...

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06 Mar

Canoeing the Mountains – Book Review

"How do you canoe over mountains?" asks Tod Bolsinger. "You don’t. If you want to continue forward, you change". Canoeing the Mountains is...

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06 Mar

Broken and Whole – Book Review

Stephen Macchia, founding president of Leadership Transformation and director of the Pierce Center for Disciple-Building at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, has put together an...

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