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Dr. David Albright op-ed: In rural Alabama, the church is the last office still open

A church can do what no agency can. It knows who is sick before the system does. It holds a trust that no program creates and no grant can buy. That is why it is the wrong place to dump the paperwork. You do not honor that pastor’s calling by handing him the county’s administrative failure on top of it. You honor it by building the capacity that lets his yes reach the family in front of him.

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