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Many of us tend to live as though Jesus represents the “spiritual part” of our lives. We don’t clearly see how he relates to the rest of our experiences, desires, and habits. How can Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity become more than a compartmentalized part of our lives? Highly regarded New Testament scholar and popular teacher Jonathan Pennington argues that we need to recover the lost...

For Steve Martin there is more depth to his joke than may at first appear. While developing his comedy career, Martin studied philosophy at UCLA. He is not throwing grenades from afar. He experienced philosophy.3 In his A Wild and Crazy Guy routine, he considers the big ethical and religious questions that philosophy raises. At one point Martin observes, “It’s so hard to believe in anything anymore. You know what I mean? It’s like religion. You can’t really take it seriously because it’s so mythological
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