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In his book, The New Testament and the People of God, N. T. Wright sets the foundation for his massive multi-volume project, Christian Origins and the Question of God. An essential beginning of this project is to understand the historical picture of early Christianity, including the worldview of Christianity in the New Testament and earliest years. …
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I was thrilled to read a feature online on Alan Jacobs, one of my favorite professors during my studies at Wheaton College, and also one of the few contemporary authors who I read nearly everything they write. While studying English literature as undergrads, my wife, Kelly, and I (as of then only dating) traveled to Oxford …
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Aaron Renn from The Urbanophile recently had an article reposted at NewGeography that a friend passed along to me. The article, "Religion and the City," traces the importance of religion in urban contexts from a sociological perspective outside of the Christian sphere. It is an insightful read calling for religion to be taken seriously in …
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Matthew Erickson 