instead, we conceive of this development as a pilgrimage that wends its way through a complex constellation of communities where practices, beliefs, and desires are formed and educated in a variety of ways? What if we think of the aim of this process not as graduation to pastoral responsibility but as membership in an ever-widening chorus that draws pastors, church members, seminary professors, and everyone else involved into the doxological praise of God? This alternative way of thinking about how
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