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failure would make perfect sense. Contemporary

evangelicalism says that

every person you fail to meet and proselytize

is another soul you might have

saved. It also emphasizes building community

among confirmed believers,

with many churches encouraging (or

even requiring) their members to join

extracurricular groups organized

around every conceivable subject—cooking,

real-estate investing,

skateboarding. So every social event

McHugh left early, every morning he

spent alone, every group he failed to

join, meant wasted chances to connect

with others.

But, ironically, if there was one thing

McHugh knew, it was that he wasn’t

alone. He looked around and saw a vast

number of people in the evangelical

community who felt just as conflicted

as he did. He became ordained as a

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