Bob Edgar

General Secretary of the National Council of Churches

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Author of the newly published Middle Church: Reclaiming the Moral Values of the Faithful Majority from the Religious Right; General Secretary of the National Council of Churches; former Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania

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