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His strength is the courage to ask questions, to live with ambiguity, to keep the faith, and to listen deeply to those who know him as their pastor. --Susan Kendall Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Take My Hand is a great telling of a first-year pastor living in his first congregation . . .  The] writing is very gracious and mirrors what happens right there at the 'ground of the fabric' where our theologies are built, our prayers are shared, our world views reshaped, and our love of God and one another deeply nourished. --Cl udio Carvalhaes Associate Professor of Worship and Preaching Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Georgia O'Keefe said that 'no one really looks at a flower, ' and then she invited us to see the beauty of those blossoms that we ordinarily take for granted. A true artist arrests us in our busyness and calls us to notice the mysterious in the mundane. Andrew Taylor-Troutman displays this gift in Take My Hand. 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