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The Dangerous Allure of Reactive Externalism

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Michael Foster
May 26, 2023
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This post is about the dangerous allure of reactive externalism. It’s about patriarchy, beards, weight-lifting, modesty, head-coverings, etc…

American Christianity has long been dominated by gnostic tendencies. Gnosticism is a false religion that troubled the church in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It revisits every generation to some degree. This go around…

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