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🎧 A Priest Walks Into a Pitch Meeting . . .

What happens when God meets Hollywood? Rob Long tempts fate

Rob Long

Mar 12

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Mid-life, Rob Long has gone back to school. Princeton Theological Seminary has been a nice timeout from Hollywood — no profanity, shouting or the pressure to wrap up every meeting with a joke. But Rob is not ditching Hollywood. Instead he ponders bridging the secular and ecclesiastical divide by showing up to his next meeting in a priest’s collar to watch what happens.

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