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Jonathan Orbell

Jonathan Orbell is a writer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary.

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Numbers, Schnumbers, Why Evangelicals Should Worry About Trump's Popularity

What would journalists and pundits do without Donald Trump? Indeed, one wonders how they ever got through our nation’s inexplicably long campaign season without him! While the Donald has inspired…
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Sure, Evangelical Numbers are Steady... But at What Cost?

The Christian Post recently published an article by Kevin Shrum which claimed the Church is not solely to blame for recent declines in Christian religious affiliation or church attendance. That…
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Southern Baptists Are Like Jews During WWII? Ronnie Floyd Makes a Ridiculous Analogy

SBC’s Ronnie Floyd name-drops Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a theologian he appears to know nothing at all about.
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