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  "path": "/2026/02/17/why-ashes-the-gift-of-finding-our-finitude-in-a-digital-world/",
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  "tags": [
    "Christianity",
    "Evangelical",
    "Faiths",
    "Mainline",
    "Opinion",
    "Opinion Top Three",
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  "textContent": "Against a backdrop of infinite possibilities and imagined cyber-immortality, the church dares to say something unfashionable: “You are dust.”",
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