Urban Religion

A marriage doesn't usually end with a bang. It ends with a quiet drift. You still love each other. You're still faithful. From the outside, you look like a great team. But somewhere between the school pickups, the late emails, and the endless we'll talk later, you became two people running a household —two feet apart on the same couch, a million miles away. Here's the hope: the opposite of drift isn't trying harder. It's protecting what matters most.

Urban Legends of the Old Testament surveys 40 of the most commonly misinterpreted passages in the Old Testament. These “urban legends” often arise because interpreters neglect a passage’s context, misuse historical background information, or misunderstand the original language of the text.

A progressive society needs a progressive religion and the teachings of Joshua can be shown to be the ideal way of life for our urban society. Joshua’s religion is evolutionary to the individual, liberating to the citizen, motivating to the activist, and transforming to the sincere seeker who is pursuing God with all his heart and soul and mind.

Why is the city a battleground of hostile principalities and powers? What is the mission of the church in the city? How can the church be supported in accomplishing that mission? These are the questions that Robert Linthicum treats in his comprehensive and probing biblical theology of the city...