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there's something to be said for hanging in there

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past the point of hanging 'round too long The holy Gospel according to St. Mark the 6th chapter ! Well, this week wasn’t the best week to be an Iowan. Was it? …I thought about asking who participated in the caucus, and then I thought, “I can’t do that.”   But then I thought it’s be funny to ask who participated in the caucus, and then while hands were raised, I’d yell, “now everyone else , get ‘em!” But , in a country increasingly defined by whether you’re blue or red, our insistence that in Jesus Christ even that division has been overcome, is one of our most potent witnesses . …Back to the caucus, though. Because there’s a very apt sermon-illustration in there.   By now it’s been determined that the cause of the fiasco was a coding error.   But , judging by how agitated everyone got, over what turned out to be nothing more than a technical issue, it would seem as though this whole ordeal tipped into some inexcusable terr...