The thought of Pastor Dan being anything but Pastor Dan throws Lev for a loop. “You… you lost your faith?” “No,” he says, “just my convictions. I still very much believe in God—just not a god who condones human tithing.” Lev begins to feel himself choking up with an unexpected flood of feeling, all the emotions that had been building up throughout their talk—throughout the weeks—arriving all at once, like a sonic boom. “I never knew that was a choice.” All his life there was only one thing Lev was allowed to believe. It had surrounded him, cocooned him, constricted him with the same stifling
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