J. Michael Laidlaw - "What Shall I Bring?" (January 29, 1984)

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	(organ music plays)	0:03
	(choir sings)	17:49
	(organ music plays)	18:52
	(choir sings along with organ music)	19:31
-	Grace and peace to you in the name	22:59
	of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,	23:02
	by whose death and resurrection our sins are forgiven,	23:05
	and we are made a redeemed people.	23:10
	Let us therefore confess our sins to God.	23:15
	O Redeeming One, our source and our destiny,	23:28
	our very beings cry out for your presence.	23:33
	Our souls ache for your mercy.	23:37
	Hear with patience our confession.	23:40
	We have been a rebellious people,	23:43
	choosing our will rather than yours.	23:46
	The wisdom of this age claims our loyalty.	23:50
	The values of this age have become our gods.	23:54
	The weak, we exploit.	23:58
	The sorrowing, we ignore.	24:01
	Conflicts increase, and we are timid disciples.	24:03
	Oh Yahweh, we lament our sin.	24:09
	By your divine foolishness, do now unsettle us.	24:13
	By your love, put to flight our arrogance,	24:18
	our greed, our treacheries.	24:22
	By your grace, redeem us.	24:25
	And saving us, arouse in us a thirst for what is just,	24:28
	a hunger to be merciful, and a passion for peace,	24:34
	that your vision of the kingdom	24:39
	may be realized on Earth as it is in Heaven.	24:41
	Through Jesus, Christ and Lord, amen.	24:46
	The Lord is gracious and merciful,	25:13
	slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love.	25:15
	Your sins are forgiven for his sake.	25:21
	Let us give thanks for God is good	25:28
	and God's love is everlasting.	25:31
-	Thanks be to God whose love creates us.	25:35
	Thanks be to God whose mercy redeems us.	25:39
	Thanks be to God whose grace leads us into the future.	25:43
	Let us pray.	25:58
	Almighty God, in whom are hid all the treasures	26:00
	of wisdom and knowledge, open our eyes	26:03
	that we may behold wondrous things out of your word,	26:06
	and give us grace, that we may clearly understand	26:10
	and heartily choose the way of your love.	26:14
	Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.	26:17
	The Old Testament lesson is from Micah, chapter 6:1-8.	26:22
	Hear now what the Lord is saying.	26:30
	Up, state your case to the mountains.	26:33
	Let the hills hear your plea.	26:36
	Hear the Lord's case, you mountains,	26:38
	you everlasting pillars that bear up the Earth,	26:41
	for the Lord has a case against his people	26:44
	and will argue it with Israel.	26:47
	O my people, what have I done to you?	26:50
	Tell me how I have wearied you.	26:53
	Answer me this.	26:56
	I brought you up from Egypt.	26:57
	I ransomed you from the land of slavery.	27:00
	I sent Moses and Aaron and Miriam to lead you.	27:03
	Remember my people what Balak,	27:07
	King of Moab, schemed against you,	27:09
	and how Balaam, son of Beor, answered him.	27:12
	Consider the journey from Shittim to Gilgal	27:16
	in order that you may know the triumph of the Lord.	27:19
	What shall I bring when I approach the Lord?	27:23
	How shall I stoop before God on High?	27:26
	Am I to approach him with whole offerings	27:29
	or yearling calves?	27:32
	Will the lord accept thousands of rams	27:34
	or ten thousand rivers of oil?	27:36
	Shall I offer my eldest son for my own wrongdoings,	27:39
	my children for my own sin.	27:44
	God has told you what is good,	27:47
	and what is it that the Lord asks of you?	27:50
	Only to do justice and to love kindness	27:55
	and to walk humbly with your God.	27:58
	Here ends the reading from the Old Testament.	28:00
	The Epistle lesson is from 1 Corinthians chapter 1:18-31.	28:06
	This doctrine of the cross is sheer folly	28:13
	to those on their way to ruin, but to us,	28:15
	who are on the way to salvation, it is the power of God.	28:19
	Scripture says I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,	28:23
	and bring to nothing the cleverness of the clever.	28:28
	Where is your wise man now?	28:32
	Your man of learning, or your subtle debater.	28:35
	Limited all of them to this passing age.	28:39
	God has made the wisdom of this world look foolish	28:42
	as God in his wisdom ordained,	28:46
	the world failed to find him by its wisdom,	28:49
	and he chose to save those who have faith	28:52
	by the folly of the Gospel.	28:55
	Jews call for miracles, Greeks look for wisdom,	28:58
	but we proclaim Christ, yes Christ nailed to the cross,	29:02
	and though this is a stumbling block to Jews	29:07
	and folly to Greeks, yet to those who have heard his call,	29:09
	Jews and Greeks alike, he is the power	29:14
	of God and the wisdom of God.	29:17
	Divine folly is wiser than human wisdom,	29:21
	and divine weakness stronger than human strength.	29:24
	My brothers and sisters, think what sort	29:28
	of people you are who God has called.	29:31
	Few of you are people of wisdom by any human standard.	29:34
	Few are powerful or highly born.	29:39
	Yet to shame the wise, God has chosen	29:42
	what the world counts folly, and to shame what is strong,	29:45
	God has chosen what the world counts weakness.	29:49
	He has chosen things low and contemptible, mere nothings,	29:52
	to overthrow the existing order, and so there is no place	29:56
	for human pride in the presence of God.	30:00
	You are in Christ Jesus by God's act in the presence of God.	30:03
	Excuse me, for God has made him our wisdom.	30:08
	He is our righteousness.	30:13
	In him, we are consecrated and set free,	30:14
	and so, in the words of scripture,	30:18
	if a man must boast, let him boast of the Lord.	30:20
	Here ends the readings from the Epistle lesson.	30:23
	(organ music plays)	30:33
	(choir sings along with music)	30:44
	Will the congregation please stand	34:22
	for the reading of the Gospel lesson?	34:24
	When he saw the crowds, he went up the hill.	34:31
	There he took his seat, and when his disciples	34:35
	had gathered around him, he began to address them,	34:38
	and this is the teaching he gave.	34:42
	How blessed are those who know their need of God.	34:44
	The kingdom of Heaven is theirs.	34:48
	How blessed are the sorrowful.	34:50
	They shall find consolation.	34:52
	How blessed are those of a gentle spirit.	34:55
	They shall have the Earth for their possession.	34:58
	How blessed are those who hunger	35:01
	and thirst to see right prevail.	35:03
	They shall be satisfied.	35:06
	How blessed are those who show mercy.	35:08
	Mercy shall be shown them.	35:11
	How blessed are those whose hearts are pure.	35:13
	They shall see God.	35:16
	How blessed are the peacemakers.	35:19
	God shall calm them his daughters and sons.	35:21
	How blessed are those who have suffered	35:25
	persecution for the cause of right.	35:27
	The kingdom of Heaven is theirs.	35:29
	How blessed are you when you suffer insults	35:32
	and persecution and every kind of calumny for my sake.	35:36
	Accept it with gladness and exaltation,	35:42
	for you have a rich reward in Heaven.	35:45
	In the same way, the persecuted the prophets before you.	35:48
	Here ends the reading of the Gospel.	35:52
	(organ music plays)	35:57
	(choir sings along with music)	36:06
-	And this will be our special prayer	37:07
	that we'll be free enough to dare to love our enemy.	37:11
	Praying together,	37:16
	may the words of my mouth	37:20
	and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable	37:23
	in your sight, O Lord, our strength,	37:25
	our only hope, and our redeemer, amen.	37:30
	It frightens me really.	37:42
	It frightens me that it's all beginning to make sense.	37:45
	It's all beginning to look so sane	37:50
	and rational and pragmatic even.	37:53
	This is one of the dangers of being	37:59
	in church as often as I am.	38:01
	This point to which I come and at which I say	38:06
	a fine thing this Christianity, a fine thing.	38:09
	Makes sense, makes good sense.	38:14
	Because I find myself believing all sorts	38:20
	of things in church that I would never let folks	38:23
	pull over on me out in the real world.	38:27
	Out there, where lovers make love,	38:31
	and flowers grow,	38:36
	and babies are born,	38:38
	and marriages fail,	38:41
	and junkies die, and the sacred	38:44
	and the secular collide in a most inelegant way.	38:49
	It's not supposed to be this way of course, and I know it.	38:56
	And you know it too, I imagine.	39:00
	Søren Kierkegaard knew it when he said	39:04
	that Christianity has taken a great stride into the absurd,	39:06
	and when he said remove from Christianity its ability	39:12
	to shock, and it is all together destroyed.	39:17
	It then becomes a tiny, superficial thing	39:22
	capable neither of inflicting deep wounds,	39:27
	nor of healing them.	39:32
	What frightens me most, I think, what frightens me most	39:36
	is that the craziness of it all,	39:40
	this Gospel of Christ crucified,	39:42
	has given way to the coziness of it all,	39:46
	this sort of snug and warm and comfortable feeling	39:49
	that we have, when you and I can come together	39:53
	and sing our hearts out and pray our heads off	39:58
	and preach our tongues numb, and still not hear	40:01
	or feel or sense or imagine	40:06
	the cutting edge of it all,	40:11
	the madness of it all.	40:14
	As I say, it has begun to make sense,	40:18
	and it hardly shocks anymore, if at all.	40:23
	And when I say it doesn't shock anymore,	40:27
	I am speaking, you see, of this new thing.	40:30
	This logos become sarx, word become flesh,	40:35
	the manger and Bethlehem, the cross	40:41
	and the suffering servant, Gethsemane and Golgotha,	40:45
	of the grand and holy and preposterously redemptive nature	40:49
	of these places and people and events.	40:55
	To borrow from the old Dane,	41:01
	the absurd has begun to sound reasonable.	41:04
	Or maybe it's not so much reasonable	41:13
	as that we're numb,	41:15
	numb you and I, to the bite in it all.	41:18
	I look at my life, and I look at your lives,	41:23
	and I look at our lives here together,	41:27
	and I see how much we have accommodated,	41:31
	made room for, been seduced by the wisdom of the world.	41:34
	This daily wisdom, shrewdness, cleverness	41:40
	that we do so take pride in and depend on to get by with	41:45
	on this demanding planet.	41:50
	And it's no wonder I suppose.	41:54
	We've got to get by after all we tell ourselves.	41:57
	And from the looks of things, we get by pretty well	42:01
	when all is said and done and the sun	42:05
	goes down and the debts are settled.	42:07
	Perhaps, perhaps the sermon on the mount	42:12
	will suffice, as illustration I mean.	42:15
	How blessed are those of the gentle spirit.	42:19
	They shall have the Earth for their possession.	42:22
	How blessed are the peacemakers.	42:26
	God shall call them his daughters and sons.	42:29
	Or from the sermon on the plain, which is Luke's variation	42:34
	of the same thing, you see, the same sermon.	42:38
	Love your enemies.	42:41
	Do good to those who hate you.	42:45
	Give to everyone who asks of you.	42:49
	When someone takes what is yours, don't demand it back.	42:53
	Pray for those who treat you spitefully.	42:59
	This, this is radical stuff.	43:07
	This talk about love and unquestioned philanthropy	43:13
	and a gentle encounter with an ungentle world.	43:18
	These are the seeds of revolution,	43:22
	of an old humanity giving way	43:26
	to a new humanity.	43:31
	It's no wonder, it's no wonder	43:36
	that the first Christians were thought to be drunk on wine.	43:38
	It's not surprising that King Festus thought Paul's defense	43:44
	of the Christian faith merited a psychiatric examination.	43:50
	You are mad is how old Festus put it to Paul.	43:56
	You are mad.	44:01
	And quite likely he was, quite likely he was,	44:06
	because that sort of allegiance to the faith	44:13
	requires a certain madness, a certain	44:16
	enlightened lunacy if you will.	44:21
	And maybe that's it.	44:25
	Maybe it's wise that we have become, and it's mad	44:28
	that we are not, until there's hardly any difference	44:33
	at all between what we believe in here	44:38
	and what we live out there, until the beatitudes	44:41
	let us say sound something like this.	44:45
	How blessed are the peacemakers.	44:49
	They'll have done to them	44:53
	what they are loathe to do to others.	44:55
	How blessed are those who show mercy.	44:58
	They'll have it done to them a second time.	45:02
	How blessed are those who are persecuted	45:06
	for the sake of righteousness.	45:10
	They shall be called fanatics.	45:13
	And so I'm beginning to understand,	45:20
	I'm beginning to better understand now why it is	45:23
	that God sees fit to place into our midst	45:26
	prophets and skeptics, poets and jesters,	45:30
	children and clowns, that through these,	45:36
	through these the very radical, pervasive,	45:41
	insane, foolish word of God	45:44
	may somehow reach us	45:48
	and touch us and transform us	45:53
	and lift us at least	45:57
	a little bit out of ourselves and into grace.	45:59
	What shall I bring inquired one of those prophets.	46:08
	What shall I bring?	46:12
	That prophet, that contemporary of Isiah,	46:15
	that one whose names and words	46:19
	would be invoked years later when defenders	46:22
	of yet another prophet named Jeremiah	46:25
	would say wait, wait, Micah said,	46:27
	and Jeremiah would be gotten off the hook one more time	46:34
	because of what Micah had said.	46:40
	What shall I bring when I	46:44
	approach the Lord was the question.	46:45
	Of course, there was more to the inquiry than that.	46:49
	There was a bargain to be struck hopefully,	46:54
	and what the interrogator really wanted to know was this:	46:58
	Just how much is enough?	47:02
	How many calves, rams,	47:06
	rivers of oil, my eldest child,	47:10
	how much do you require Yahweh?	47:14
	How little can I get by with?	47:18
	And then the answer, and it's an answer so deceptive	47:23
	in its brevity, so radical in its requirements,	47:28
	and what does the Lord require of you?	47:34
	Only to do justice	47:38
	and to love kindness	47:42
	and to walk humbly with your God.	47:45
	In other words,	47:50
	it's not your piety and your songs	47:53
	and your show of solemn faces that I want.	47:57
	Not even your money and your goods unless given in love.	48:01
	No, what I want of you is for you	48:06
	to move away from your worship of power	48:09
	to the use of your power as a means of worship.	48:13

-	God is urging,	0:03
	a living,	0:06
	a living sacrifice.	0:08
	And if today,	0:13
	if today that lacks sufficient particularity	0:15
	then let Jesus provide that.	0:19
	Hungering to see right prevail.	0:23
	Making peace.	0:28
	Showing mercy.	0:32
	In a world inclined toward violence and vengeance,	0:35
	as Christians, ours is a different mandate.	0:40
	Here you and I are in a world beset by violence	0:46
	and all forms of brutality and death.	0:50
	And the question arises,	0:54
	what can be done?	0:57
	How can these impulses to hurt and destroy,	0:59
	how can these impulses be transformed into the desire	1:03
	to heal and to make whole?	1:07
	How can these savage impulses,	1:12
	so close to the surface of each of us,	1:15
	be recycled somehow into creativity?	1:18
	The wisdom of the world says that the only way to cope	1:26
	realistically with evil is the way of the tiger.	1:29
	That is, to give destructiveness a dose of its own medicine	1:34
	by inflicting pain back on those who hurt others.	1:38
	Employing violence,	1:44
	employing violence to curb violence.	1:47
	And it is this idea, this notion,	1:52
	that lies at the heart of the philosophies of war,	1:56
	and capital punishment.	2:00
	But when you and I reflect seriously on this,	2:04
	it is to see that it is no solution at all.	2:09
	Indeed, it is simply buying into the same sickness	2:13
	that we are trying to cure.	2:17
	The truth of the matter is,	2:21
	my sisters and brothers,	2:22
	the truth of the matter is,	2:25
	the way of the tiger does not bring peace	2:27
	to the jungle at all.	2:32
	Presently,	2:37
	presently, the conventional wisdom of the world	2:39
	says put to death James Hutchins.	2:42
	And Velma Barfield, too.	2:47
	And the many others so condemned.	2:50
	Eye for an eye, life for a life.	2:53
	Violence for violence.	2:58
	But Jesus repeatedly mandates another way.	3:04
	The way of mercy.	3:08
	Which is to say, returning not evil for evil,	3:10
	but good for evil.	3:14
	Martin Luther King called it the asymmetrical response.	3:18
	Living out grace in the presence	3:23
	of all that threatens grace.	3:26
	As Christians, as human beings,	3:30
	exercising our capacity to love,	3:33
	rather than to destroy.	3:37
	Our age has come to equate justice	3:43
	with vengeance, with retribution.	3:46
	But in fact, in the biblical scheme of things,	3:50
	which is to say, God's scheme of things,	3:52
	they are not the same at all.	3:55
	Indeed, if that were God's notion of justice,	3:58
	then you and I would have no grace to declare.	4:02
	No gospel to savor.	4:07
	No hope.	4:10
	It is Abraham Heschel who reminds us,	4:16
	divine justice	4:20
	involves God's being merciful,	4:23
	compassionate.	4:27
	And then, another reminder from Heschel,	4:30
	though human justice would require	4:33
	that Abel's blood be avenged,	4:35
	Cain is granted divine pardon	4:39
	and protection.	4:44
	No, God does not intend that justice dissolve	4:47
	into retribution.	4:52
	They are not one and the same.	4:55
	And that is why Micah spoke as he did.	4:58
	And that, in fact, is behind the Sermon on the Mount.	5:02
	Justice, justice and mercy, dwell together	5:08
	as kindred spirits.	5:14
	And they have as their purpose, the enhancing	5:17
	of human life,	5:22
	and human community.	5:25
	Not its destruction.	5:28
	Do justice, says the prophet.	5:31
	Show mercy, urges the Christ.	5:36
	Pursue reconciliation.	5:41
	And the miracle of it all, by God,	5:48
	is that it works.	5:51
	Over and over and over again.	5:54
	When the Sermon on the Mount is adopted as a lifestyle,	5:58
	change occurs.	6:03
	Destructiveness is transformed into creativity.	6:06
	Curdled hatred, recycled, into love.	6:11
	If the way of the tiger,	6:19
	if the way of the tiger does make us more beast like,	6:22
	and it does,	6:28
	then the way of the Christ does hold forth	6:32
	the potential for transforming life	6:36
	and bringing peace,	6:42
	shalom, to a violent world	6:44
	and troubled relationships.	6:49
	What shall I bring?	6:54
	Inquires Micah for each of us.	6:58
	And his, though Spartan, declares its own truth.	7:02
	In Hebrew, Micah means who is like Yahweh.	7:07
	Who is like Yahweh, indeed.	7:13
	None. None that I know.	7:19
	And yet, and yet,	7:24
	perhaps I have forgotten.	7:29
	Perhaps we have forgotten.	7:32
	So God created humankind in his own image.	7:38
	In the image of God,	7:44
	he created humankind.	7:47
	For what purpose?	7:54
	Thy kingdom come, they will be done.	7:57
	Where? On earth, on earth,	8:02
	as it is in heaven.	8:08
	An implausible hope,	8:12
	undoubtedly a foolish hope.	8:15
	But someone, somewhere,	8:19
	once upon a time,	8:22
	did propose a prayer that includes that vision.	8:25
	What shall we bring, you and I,	8:32
	when we approach the Lord?	8:36
	What shall we bring?	8:39
	Only, only the doing of justice,	8:43
	and the loving of kindness,	8:48
	and the walking humbly, with the God who creates us.	8:51
	What God requires of us, you see,	8:58
	is not something outside of ourselves.	9:01
	But rather, our very selves.	9:06
	That righteousness will indeed prevail,	9:11
	and mercy be shown,	9:16
	and the sorrowing comforted,	9:19
	and the earth embraced by shalom.	9:22
	For Christ's sake, and in his name,	9:31
	Amen.	9:39
-	(organ music)	9:49
-	(hymn sung by congregation)	10:42
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	14:25
	We believe in God, who has created and is creating,	14:29
	who has come in the truly human Jesus,	14:35
	to reconcile and make new.	14:38
	Who works in us and others by the spirit.	14:41
	We trust God, who calls us to be the church,	14:45
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	14:49
	to love and serve others,	14:52
	to seek justice and resist evil,	14:55
	to proclaim Jesus, crucified and risen,	14:58
	our judge and our hope, in life, in death,	15:02
	in life beyond death, God is with us.	15:07
	We are not alone.	15:11
	Thanks be to God.	15:13
	The Lord be with you.	15:16
congregation	And also with you.	15:18
-	Let us pray.	15:20
	Oh, God,	15:37
	giver and sustainer of life,	15:39
	hear our prayers this day, as we lift	15:44
	the concerns of our hearts and our minds to you.	15:48
	For the sick.	15:56
	Oh, God, the source of all healing,	16:02
	we offer our prayers on behalf of those who are sick,	16:05
	and we name them now in our hearts before you.	16:09
	Give special comfort to those	16:29
	with chronic or life threatening disease.	16:31
	And give strength to their families and loved ones.	16:34
	Bless those who grieve.	16:39
	And give hope to those whose lives seem empty,	16:41
	meaningless, and full of despair.	16:45
	For the oppressed,	16:51
	oh God, the source of all justice,	16:55
	we offer our prayers on behalf of the oppressed.	16:58
	Give us courage to speak and act	17:03
	when injustice prevails.	17:05
	And give us hope when the task of righting wrongs	17:07
	seems overwhelming.	17:11
	We pray this day for our lawmakers,	17:14
	and those who govern us, and all national leaders.	17:17
	Give them wisdom, oh God.	17:21
	Give them patience and strength of purpose.	17:23
	We pray for all prisoners of conscious everywhere.	17:27
	And for those on death row in North Carolina,	17:30
	and in the United States, and for their families,	17:34
	and their victims' families.	17:37
	For the world.	17:47
	Oh God, the source of all beauty,	17:49
	and creator of all,	17:52
	forgive us for our poor stewardship of this world.	17:55
	Increase our awareness of the beauty of your creation,	17:59
	even as we care for it.	18:03
	Bless the farmers and those who provide us with food.	18:06
	And keep us ever mindful of the swollen bellies	18:09
	of our starving brothers and sisters here and abroad.	18:12
	Bless our relationships with each other.	18:19
	May our homes be havens of peace,	18:23
	and our marriages and friendships a sacrament, a sign,	18:26
	of your gracious love.	18:32
	As we leave here this day, may our lives show forth	18:36
	what our lips have proclaimed.	18:40
	For we ask it in the name of our Lord and Savior	18:42
	Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray:	18:45
	Our Father, who art in heaven,	18:49
	hallowed be thy name.	18:52
	They kingdom come, thy will be done,	18:54
	on earth as it is in heaven.	18:58
	Give us this day our daily bread,	19:00
	and forgive us our trespasses,	19:03
	as we forgive those who trespass against us.	19:06
	Lead us not into temptation,	19:10
	and deliver us from evil,	19:12
	for thine is the kingdom, the power	19:14
	and the glory, forever.	19:17
	Amen.	19:20
-	(quiet organ music)	19:24
-	(louder organ music)	21:17
-	(choir sings)	21:32
-	(organ music)	26:57
-	(hymn sung by congregation)	27:17
-	These gifts, oh God, are but a symbol	28:24
	of the gifts of our lives.	28:26
	A living sacrifice, given in response	28:28
	to the good news of our salvation.	28:32
	Accept and bless them, we ask in Jesus name, Amen.	28:35
-	(organ music)	28:44
-	(hymn sung by congregation)	29:24
-	The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ	32:19
	and the love of God and the fellowship	32:21
	of the Holy Sprit be with you all.	32:24
-	(choir singing) Amen.	32:29
-	(organ music)	32:52

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Title:

J. Michael Laidlaw - "What Shall I Bring?" (January 29, 1984)

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We run a danger of forgetting the paradoxical nature of the Gospel and growing numb to its radical claims on our lives. Yet the prophets, such as Micah, and Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount, come to us as reminders of what it is to live out the mercy and love of God in a violent world. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Sermon start time: (Part 1) 37:07. Sermon end time: (Part 2) 9:41.
Key quotation: “I’m beginning to better understand now why it is that God sees fit to place in our midst prophets and skeptics, poets and jesters, children and clowns, that through these, through these the very radical, pervasive, insane, foolish words of God may somehow reach us and touch us and transform us and lift us at least a little bit out of ourselves and into grace.”

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January 29, 1984

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Laidlaw, J. Michael

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