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THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST
Years ago Nikos Kazantzakis wrote a book with this title, which was later made into a very controversial film. Kazantzakis’ idea was that at the last-minute Jesus dreamed that he had avoided the crucifixion and settled down to a normal country life with Mary Magdalen. When he awoke, he realized that it was but a…
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COTTONPATCH CHRISTIANITY
Some of you may remember the book about this groundbreaking, hands-on version of the Christian message back in the 1940s through 1970. A guy named Clarence Jordan started a movement known as the “Koinonia Farm Experiment” in southern Georgia in 1942 during World War Two. He had the radical idea that the faith Jesus was…