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"I'm trying to be as honest as I can to my experience of God—and to my experience of the absence of God."

Richard A. Kauffman interviews Frederick Buechner

September 11, 2002

Photo by Alan Fortney

Click here to read Richard Kauffman's 2002 interview of Frederick Buechner from the Christian Century archives.

Richard A. Kauffman a former Century senior editor, has served four different Mennonite congregations as interim pastor during his retirement.

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