Pastrix
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Chapter 4: La Femme Nadia
Chapter 5: Thanks, ELCA!
Chapter 6: Hurricanes and Humiliation
Chapter 7: I Didn’t Call You for This Truth Bullshit
Chapter 8: Clinical Pastoral Education
Chapter 9: Eunuchs and Hermaphrodites
Chapter 10: Cotton Candy
Chapter 11: Pirate Christian
Chapter 12: The Haitian Stations of the Cross
Chapter 13: Demons and Snow Angels
Chapter 14: Doormats and Wrinkled Vestments
Chapter 15: Ghosts in the Kingdom of Heaven
Chapter 16: Dirty Fingernails
Chapter 17: The Wrong Kind of Different
Chapter 18: He’s a Fuck-up, But He’s Our Fuck-up
Chapter 19: Beer & Hymns
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