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" "The deepest religious concern on this earth today is being a good neighbor. The most crucial political issue in the world today is learning how to do rightly neighbor-with-neighbor. The greatest social urgency is learning how to be a good neighbor to one another. And certainly the most crucial concern of our global economy, call it economic justice, is caring about our neighbors simply the same way we care about ourselves.
Robert H. Meneilly (March 5, 1925 – July 20, 2021), known as "Dr. Bob", was an American Presbyterian pastor who was the founding pastor of Village Presbyterian Church in Kansas.
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