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Okay. Oneminute warning. That invigorated people. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. Ill have to remember that. Well, its my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. Let me just begin by introducing myself briefly. Im bill galston, a senior fellow in the Governance Studies Program here at brookings. Delighted to be a small cog in the brookings Service Year Alliance machine that has produced this meeting. I want to thank two people in particular. Bell sawhill for conceiving of this day and working tirelessly over a period of at least six months to bring it about. And also our president john allen for lending his vast experience and immense moral authority to our enterprise this morning. And i think its a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service ....
I had a conversation a few years africa aboutaharan human sexuality. Were deeply into it. Theiristened, sense of betrayal you have to let yourself be touched by that. You cannot reject it as a direct s an ignorant view. Part of the dialogue is a dialogue that has great pain. We must let ourselves be hurt. Because i with it like all of us i dont like to be hurt. I dont like to feel pain. I go a long way to avoid it, emotional pain particularly. Does that make any sense . Very much. Tom im afraid we have to close it down now. The archbishop has to be leaving. One final thought. We have been talking a lot about issues climate change, migration, violence better handled by secular institutions. Do you see any challenge, danger in the church becoming too secularized by its focus on these institutions . What you mentioned is very important. The importance of not soft peddling. Archbishop welby i think there is. Us,ink making people like we can end up saying the wrong thing about everything. N ....