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What Rainn Wilson Knows About God

You might not think of going to the actor from <em>The Office</em> for spiritual guidance, but you really should.
Source: Illustration by Jan Buchczik

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Seattle has gone through several big transformations in the past few decades. Today, it is known for Amazon, Microsoft, fancy coffee, and enormous fortunes. In the 1990s, it was a cool destination for countercultural 20-somethings who liked grunge rock. In the ’60s and ’70s, it was a remote, rainy city dominated by Boeing, albeit with a vital arts community and a lot of spiritual seekers.

That last version of Seattle is the soil from which the actor Rainn Wilson sprang—as did I. Over lunch in Boston in April, we discovered that we had weirdly parallel lives: With less.

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