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Joshua Hicks, seminarian known for his joyful faith

By Bryan Marquard

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 16, 2012

Perhaps because severe allergies and asthma brought Joshua Hicks close to death as a child, he had an appreciation of life that was easy to see. “Josh was one of the few people I’ve ever met whose heart was actually bigger than his body,’’ said his close friend Joe Merrill, a student with Mr. Hicks at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton. “He had that gift to make you ecstatically happy, more so than you ever were before he was in the room.’’

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