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June 1983

Downstairs at the Upstairs

A clergyman finds sobriety in church basements

IN THE beginning, I had an "image problem." I didn't belong in the basement of the church with the stale cigarette smoke and the plastic cups of coffee. I belonged upstairs, not only upstairs, but up front upstairs with the silver plates, the big chalices, and the linen. That was my territory.

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