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The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World
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The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World. By Bruce W. Longenecker. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003, 192 pp., $14.99 paper.
Sixteen years ago, the Heidelberg NT scholar Gerd Theissen penned a delightful historical novel that explored the social context of the historical Jesus. In the Shadow of the Galilean (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1987) was eminently successful in exploiting a seldom used genre (at least by NT scholars) for reconstructing and presenting NT background...
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The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
; The Lost Letters of Pergamum: A Story from the New Testament World. By Bruce W. Longenecker. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2003, 192 pp., $14.99 paper. Sixteen years ago, the Heidelberg NT scholar Gerd Theissen penned a delightful historical novel that explored the social context of the historical Jesus. In
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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House churches: Intimacy to the maximum; For some worshipers who seek an intimate, specific mode of worship, the church is in the house.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; Byline: Pamela Miller; Staff Writer In a rented basement room in Golden Valley, a little church called Spirit in Action has made its home. Its first home was in a home. In Minneapolis' Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, members of a Christian network called Missio Dei share a house. Beyond living-room
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Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; CAROLYN S. OSIEK and DAVID L. BALCH, Families in the New Testament World: Households and House Churches (The Family, Religion, and Culture; Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1997). Pp. x + 329. Paper $25. This book is part of a series, The Family, Religion, and Culture, edited by Don S. Browning
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 "Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)")
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Homegrown religion: Christians find fulfillment, support in house churches.
Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK)
; Byline: Bill Sherman Jun. 2--A dozen people sat in the living room of an apartment on Riverside Drive on Sunday morning. Eyes closed, they sang worship songs to a guitar while a baby crawled around on the carpet, occasionally finding a seat on someone's lap. They are members of a house church,
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China's `House Churches' Persevere; Evangelical Protestants Resist Pressure by the Government to Join Official Church
The Washington Post
; Chinese authorities are trying to control an evangelical Protestant church movement in and around this south China city by threatening to close those "house churches" that fail to register with the government. But so far the government has met with stubborn resistance from church leaders, who say
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Millions of lost letters.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; MILLIONS of letters are delivered to the wrong home each year. But despite the headaches caused from missed hospital appointments to job application responses only one in ten people complains to Royal Mail. Consumer group Postwatch said that8.7million of the14.5million lost letters every year were
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HOUSE of the LORD; Making a straight edge through American culture, a growing number of 20-somethings meet in house churches and express their Christian faith in a more Bible-based way than their baby-boom parents ever would. They look unorthodox, but they're riding the winds of humility, justice and mercy much as first-century believers did.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; The acrid-smoke air is laced with the raucous sounds of Limp Bizkit. Lisa Thompson sits with her back to the wall of the Java Joint coffeehouse quietly reading her book. Hi, Gracemarie says as she slides into the chair at Thompson's table. And then begins the story, the pain, the sorrow, the
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A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity
Journal of Biblical Literature
; A Woman's Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity, by Carolyn Osiek and Margaret Y. MacDonald with Janet H. Tulloch. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. Pp. 352. $20.00 (paper). ISBN 0800637771. For several decades scholars, especially feminists, have tested new methods and theories in the study of
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17,000 'lost' letters
The Sunday Telegraph London
; A postman in Kidsgrove, Staffs, has been sacked after Royal Mail security staff found 17,000 undelivered letters at a house.
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 "Morning Edition (NPR)")
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Lost Letters Returned to Minister's Family
Morning Edition (NPR)
; STEVE INSKEEP Morning Edition (NPR) 11-08-2006 Lost Letters Returned to Minister's Family Host: STEVE INSKEEP Time 11:00-12:00 PM Play Audio STEVE INSKEEP, host: Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. Here's an update on those hundreds of prayer letters that ended up at sea. People sent them to a
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