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Oct 2022
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History is a Foreign Country

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Happy Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day! A lot of people are sparring over whether or not we should celebrate one or the other. But Boyd says we're focused on the wrong thing. He chats about why, in our cancel culture world, it's important to have grace for those who lived in the past. 

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