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The lecture needs a comeback.

Book recommendation for a new work of historical theology on the doctrine of conversion.

The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) has published their massive survey on American denominational identity. The study confirms...

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Historical figures get frozen in time, remembered for those one or two bullet point things. For Isaac Newton it is the apple falling on his

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Altar call language is now repellent clichés that drop out of the mouth of the conversionism preacher.

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