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The historical reason: The apostle Paul and the other early Christian missionaries focused exclusively on ministry in cities. Early Christianity was an urban religion.
Stephen Witmer • A Big Gospel in Small Places: Why Ministry in Forgotten Communities Matters
a contrast life aimed at communion.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
On a larger scale, beyond people’s interdependent networks, cultural evolution also created a mosaic of diverse communities that generated selection pressures favoring a tribal psychology. Because of how we learn from others, cultural evolution frequently produces ethnolinguistic communities. These populations are marked both by a cluster of easily
... See moreJoseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Finally, we need to increase our individual and congregational giving to support Christian scholarship.
J.P. Moreland • Love Your God With All Your Mind
zunehmenden Versuche wachsender gesellschaftlicher Kräfte, sich von dem jüdisch-christlichen Erbe immer mehr zu lösen.
Jörg Ahlbrecht • Die Wahrheit in Person: Jesus folgen in unsicheren Zeiten (Edition Aufatmen) (German Edition)
2 Corinthians is Paul’s most autobiographical letter. He shares much of his own story not because he is narcissistic but because he knows the church is struggling to trust him and he needs to build rapport.
Benjamin Vrbicek • Blogging for God’s Glory in a Clickbait World
Living in a climate of deep insecurity, Jesus, faced with so narrow a margin of civil guarantees, had to find some other basis upon which to establish a sense of well-being. He knew that the goals of religion as he understood them could never be worked out within the then-established
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
A Theocentric Approach to Life, Ministry, and the Gospel