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  <name><![CDATA[Jim Purcell]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[I'm a former journalist who became a licensed ABCNJ minister at my home church in Edison, N.J. As a journalist, I garnered recognition from the U.S. Congress, U.S. Army, N.J. Legislature, and Greater Long Branch NAACP, among other groups. 

I am currently attending the N.Y. Theological Seminary, in Manhattan, and am volunteering in hospice in New Jersey.

I believe deeply in God and family, and am a devout Christian Progressive. As a young man I served in the U.S. Army Infantry and Intelligence Corps, respectively. My favorite affiliation is as a life member of the 82nd Airborne Division Association (North Jersey Chapter).]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Obery Hendricks, Dale Irvin, Martin Luther King Jr., Cornel West]]></influences>    <hometown>Newark, NJ</hometown>  <born_at>03/09/1966</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Faith Outside the City]]></title>
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  <published>2009</published>  
  
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