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Feb. 8 TLC Online

The February 8 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. Associate editor Douglas LeBlanc writes in the cover article:

When the city of North Platte, Nebraska, celebrates its 150th anniversary next year, the Church of Our Savior will have much to contribute. North Platte exists today because in 1866 the Union Pacific Railroad extended its line to that point along the North Platte River.

North Platte’s identity as a frontier town — a way station between railroads and covered wagons moving further west — has given Church of Our Savior several brushes with history, and attorney Steve Kay has recorded them with diligence.

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From Buffalo Bill to Fr. Kano at Church of Our Savior in North Platte, Nebraska | By Douglas LeBlanc


Heat Turns Green | By G. Jeffrey MacDonald


Practicing the Presence of Place | By Paul Wheatley

Cultures
Earthly Saints | Review by Hannah Ruth Earl

Catholic Voices
Taming the Bureaucratic Beast | By Steven R. Ford

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