“Still I Rise” from And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems by Maya Angelou, copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
“Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, collected in STRANGER MUSIC: Selected Poems and Songs. © 1993 Leonard Cohen and Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc., used by permission of The Wylie Agency LLC.
Excerpt from Strong for a Moment Like This by Bill Shillady, copyright © 2017 Abingdon Press, which is comprised of commentary that originally appeared in a blog by Pastor Matt Deuel. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Excerpt from The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming by Henri Nouwen, copyright © 1992 by Henri J. M. Nouwen. Used by permission of Doubleday Religion, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All Rights reserved.
Extracts taken from “East Coker,” Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot © Set Copyrights Limited and reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber.
Excerpt from “The Room Where It Happens” from Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Used by permission of author.
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“Giving and Receiving Consolation” from Bread For The Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith by Henri J.M. Nouwen. Copyright © 1997 by Henri J.M. Nouwen. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Excerpt from “To be of use” from Circles on the Water by Marge Piercy, copyright © 1982 by Middlemarsh, Inc. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All Rights reserved.
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Gallup, based on research done in collaboration with Georgetown University and the University of Michigan.