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Something to Really Believe

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Something to Really Believe

In which I stop by to see Saint Thomas

Bethel McGrew
Jun 22, 2021
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Canadian singer-songwriter Burton Cummings had never been much on religion, by his own admission. But on that dreary afternoon when he ducked into Manhattan’s Saint Thomas Church to wait out a bad New York winter storm, he couldn’t deny what he felt as he sat quietly in the back pew. In later years, he described it as “a presence” — something that could…

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