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Archive for November 1st, 2007

Some things never change. In 1517 a “short, dumpy, stump preacher” (James Kittleson, Martin Luther: The Reformer, 103) named Johann Tetzel was going around the Germany collecting money for Pope Leo X’s newest project, a renovation of St. Peter’s basilica. Such a project would not come cheap, especially when you had two [...]

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“I’m not a fundamentalist.” That’s what I said many years ago to a woman I met who had graduated from Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. She asked me what school I was attending for seminary and I responded, “Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.” Her response to my reply was, “Oh so you’re a fundamentalist.” [...]

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