James Talarico Discusses Going to Seminary with Rev Otis Moss III

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going to seminary, which I did in my

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second term when I was kind of hitting a

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wall um in in the Capitol. Um it was a

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way for me to follow Jesus's first

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commandment to love God because you have

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to have both. He gave both for a reason.

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Loving your neighbor without being in

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touch with, you know, the ground of our

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being and and having that spiritual

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foundation, it leads to burnout. Um, but

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also if you're just loving God and

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you're just focused on your inner

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spiritual life and you're not focused on

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what's happening outside the sanctuary,

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you're not you're not following Jesus.

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So, it's it's how do you balance both of

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these things? And so as a seminarian and

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a lawmaker, I'm just starting to figure

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out how these two commandments

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sustain, challenge, and enrich each