Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church

Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fairfield, Ohio, uses Facebook to connect with its members and lists that under the church’s ministries. The church also links to the ELCA’s Imagine Yourself social network. Timothy R. Swanson is reverend.

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Kevin Rains

Kevin Rains operates Vineyard Central, a community of house churches in the Cincinnati area. He left a Vineyard Church for a series of house churches in the 1990s. He likens the growth of house churches, and their organization into local networks without any kind of larger oversight, to the growth of the World Wide Web. He […]

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Hannibal Hamlin

Hannibal Hamlin is an associate professor of English at Ohio State University, Columbus. A specialist in Renaissance literature and culture, he co-edited The King James Bible After 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Influences. Hamlin organized a 2011 conference at OSU on the literary and cultural influence of the KJV.

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Timothy Beal

Timothy Beal is the Florence Harkness Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University, a blogger at Huffington Post and the author of The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book. Read his March 21, 2011, post on the King James Bible.

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Paul Djupe

Paul Djupe is a political scientist at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where he specializes in religion and politics. He edits the Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics series and has written about people of faith’s voting patterns, the religious right and faith-based opposition to socialism.

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John-Charles Duffy

John-Charles Duffy is a visiting assistant professor in the department of comparative religion at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. From 2001-04, he helped coordinate a series of brown bag discussions on Mormon studies at the University of Utah.

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Phil Burress

Phil Burress is president of Citizens for Community Values, which has offices in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Read the CCV report “The Legal Liability Associated with Homosexuality Education in Public Schools.”

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Jerry Pankhurst

Jerry G. Pankhurst is a sociology professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio. He is co-editor of Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Faces the Twenty-First Century.

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