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Jared Ayers

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Creating Culture

The Tokyo-based cultural historian W. David Marx recently published a new book titled Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century. In it, he

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A Monster for This Moment

It being the week before Halloween, I decided I’d find a copy of Frankenstein and give it a try. What I experienced was not some

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Day One Rant

Faith & Formation This year, I’ve started adjunct-teaching a class at Palm Beach Atlantic University, here in West Palm Beach, called Christian Faith & Formation.

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For Those Who Fret About It

For much of my pastoral life, I’ve conversed in living rooms, at park benches, and in bars and cafés with people wondering about Christian faith,

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In Phoebe’s Neighborhood

As the person bearing the letter we now call the book of Romans, it would have been Phoebe who first read, explained, taught, and answered

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Promiscuous Reading

While preparing for our family travel and rest in June and July, I’ll assemble my “summer stack”– the books I’ll read my way through over

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Lead Us Not Into Temptation?

Many struggle with its final petition: “Lead us not into temptation,” in the King’s English. Does God tempt people into sinning?

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