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The Bible and Cultural Critique (with Christopher Watkin)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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The Reversal of Our Expectations

God is overturning our expectations about what to value and what to seek in the world. He doesn't choose Jesse's big, strapping, you know, martial sons. Instead he chooses little smelly shepherd David to be his great king. And there's just something so powerfully, but also delicately subversive in that - because we still live in a society that values power and money.

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