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Around the Town: Weekly Round Up
Read more: Around the Town: Weekly Round UpJeremy Lin is the newest feel good story in sports. Lin, a point guard for the New York Knicks, is also a Christian. Is Lin the Tim Tebow of basketball? Carl Park from the Gospel Coalition shares his thoughts about Lin’s Christianity. Here is a similar post by Timothy Gombis. Additionally, here is an opinion…
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NT Wright Interview: How God Became King (New Book)
Read more: NT Wright Interview: How God Became King (New Book)NT Wright’s new book, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, is due out this upcoming March. I was able to send Prof. Wright a few questions about this forthcoming book for the blog and he graciously agreed to answer them for The Two Cities. My questions are highlighted in bold: 1)…
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Esther & Cover-up?
Read more: Esther & Cover-up?[Update (2/14/2014)—My new book Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture is now available. My posts on this site represent stages in the development of my thinking about Esther. For the full argument check out the book]. Over the last three weeks I’ve been looking at the book of Esther. In post…
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Around the Town: Weekly Round-up #2 (2012)
Read more: Around the Town: Weekly Round-up #2 (2012)We have a new logo courtesy of Steve Feld. Thanks so much for the awesome design! This week a spoken word poet named Jefferson Bethke went viral with his video: Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus. The guys over at Resurgence posted this about the video: “We don’t post poetry very often, but we…
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Esther & Covenant?
Read more: Esther & Covenant?[Update (2/14/2014)—My new book Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture is now available. My posts on this site represent stages in the development of my thinking about Esther. For the full argument check out the book]. Over the last two weeks I’ve discussed the enigmatic nature of the book of Esther.…
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Around the Town: Weekly Round-up #1 (2012)
Read more: Around the Town: Weekly Round-up #1 (2012)CNN interacts with Mark Driscoll’s new book, Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together, co-written with his wife. Read CNN’s article here. In light of the recent Iowa Caucuses to determine the future GOP candidate and the upcoming primaries in New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, and so on, Kevin DeYoung gives us…
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Esther & Compromise?
Read more: Esther & Compromise?[Update (2/14/2014)—My new book Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture is now available. My posts on this site represent stages in the development of my thinking about Esther. For the full argument check out the book]. Last week I wrote briefly about whether Esther belongs in the canon of Christian scripture.…
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Yearly Round-Up
Read more: Yearly Round-Up2011 has come to a close. It has been a great year and there are a lot of fun things to look forward to in 2012 (who isn’t excited for The Dark Knight Rises or The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey?). Here at The Two Cities we are very excited for the introduction of this blog in…