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This is the second part of a two-part discussion conducted via e-mail and in person with evangelical Nazarene pastor Geoff DeFranca as part of our ongoing Wizard of Monadnock interfaith series. You can read part one here.  It had been nearly 800 years since the patriotic prophet Isaiah, living in the small and feeble nationContinueContinue reading “Counter-Culture Christ: Interview with Evangelical Pastor Geoff DeFranca Part II”

It’s a little more than 700 years BCE, in the tiny tribal nation of Judah. Resting in what is now the southern part of Palestine, Judah comprised slightly less than half of the Promised Land – the land, according to the Hebrew Bible, once known as Canaan and promised by god (known as YHWH, correctContinueContinue reading “Journey of a Sane Evangelical: Interview with Pastor Geoff DeFranca, Part I”