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Jason Swan Clark
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Learning the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and Ignatian Spirituality at the intersection of behavioural and social sciences, neuroscience and theology

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    Director of the London Centre of Spiritual Direction. Ten years in finance in London and twenty-five years as a church planter. I hold a Doctor D.Min and a PhD in theology. I was the Principal and Head of Waverley Abbey College for two years.

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