Senior Pastor Julia Pickerill interviews author Bonnie Kristian who is a journalist, and a contributing editor at The Week, writing feature articles on foreign policy, religion, criminal justice, urbanism, civil liberties, electoral politics, and more. Her column "The Lesser Kingdom," appears in Christianity Today. Bonnie is a fellow at Defense Priorities, and her op-eds have been published at outlets including USA Today, Defense One, the LA Times, CNN, Politico, Time, Reason, National Interest, and The American Conservative. Bonnie’s book is titled A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today. A graduate of Bethel Seminary, she lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with her husband and twin sons.

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Other resources:
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, by Gordon Fee
Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible, by E. Randolph Richards, Brandon J. O'Brien
The Story of Christianity: Volume 1, The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation, by Justo L. Gonzalez