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Letters from 4 to 11 December 2005

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Closed only physically, not spiritually

Your words about a closed or closing urban US church (front-page letter, 4 December) could easily be about St. Peter's in Germantown in Philadelphia. I would caution you not to assume that no tears are shed or that the work of a wonderful Sunday School in the 1950s is not still going on in other places, through those who were inspired there. And perhaps that real estate like the "Giving Tree" will give again in new and unanticipated ways.

Liz Gober
St. Christopher's Episcopal Church
Springfield, Virginia, USA
5 December 2005

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