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    Faith & the American Presidency
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    The Holy Land
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    The Gnostic Hunger for Secret Knowledge
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    The Gospel According to J.S. Bach
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    Building the City of God in a Crumbling World
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    St. Benedict & Western Monasticism
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    America’s 20th Century Evangelical Awakening
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    Michelangelo: Art for Faith’s Sake
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    Adoniram & Ann Judson: American Mission Pioneers
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    Richard Baxter & the English Puritans
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    C. S. Lewis: Pointing People to Reality
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    Christianity in India: A Faith of Many Colors
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    George MacDonald: Writer Who Inspired C.S. Lewis
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    The Council of Nicaea: Debating Jesus’ Divinity
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    Pilgrims & Exiles: Amish, Mennonites, & Brethren
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    Mary in the Imagination of the Church
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    Phoebe Palmer: Mother of the Holiness Movement
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    John Newton: Author of “Amazing Grace”
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    The First Bible Teachers
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    African Apostles: Black Evangelists in Africa
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    J.R.R. Tolkien & Lord of the Rings
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    Jonathan Edwards: Puritan Pastor & Theologian
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    The Christian Face of the Scientific Revolution
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March 19, 1229: Having negotiated a treaty with Muslims for Christian access to Jerusalem, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (a reluctant participant in the sixth crusade) enters the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and crowns himself king. But his peace treaty was denounced by members of both faiths, and the same day the Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem pronounced an interdict on the city. Frederick was later excommunicated for making peace instead of war (see issue 40: The Crusades).

March 19, 1684: Jean ...

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