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Zoom Book Group — Calvin’s 1536 Institutes!

November 5, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 4 Comments

Calvin's 1536 Institutes

I’m so jazzed to tell you my book group is planning to read Calvin’s 1536 Institutes! If you have been a regular here on my site you probably know that I have a theological book group through my Patreon page that’s been meeting each week via Zoom throughout the pandemic. Every time we start a […]

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Julian of Norwich “Showings” — The New Book in My Zoom Group

September 9, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Julian of Norwich

My Zoom Book Group Before the pandemic I started a Patreon page, and the most popular thing I did there was labeled “The Education.” For $8.33 per month (that comes out to $100 per year) you get access to an ongoing series of videos that take you into a topic or text from the history […]

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Augustine’s Confessions — New Video Series

March 9, 2021 by Gary Neal Hansen Leave a Comment

Augustine's Confessions Video Series

Augustine’s Confessions Video Series! I’m really happy to be able to invite you to join me in what you might call an online historical theological adventure. Above you’ll find the first introductory video for a series I’m doing on one of the greatest books ever written: Augustine’s Confessions. The rest of the videos will come […]

Filed Under: Saints, Theology Tagged With: Online Reading Group, Patreon, Video Series

Next Up in the Reading Group: Gregory of Nyssa’s “Life of Moses”

May 18, 2020 by Gary Neal Hansen 2 Comments

Introducing… My Online Reading Group For a while now I’ve been developing a project that I’m finding to be really fun. It is an online reading group on topics in Church history and theology. I pick a subject (with input from the members) and one or more relevant cool texts from the history of Christianity. […]

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Why You Should Read Popularizations (Letters to a Young Pastor)

November 10, 2016 by Gary Neal Hansen 6 Comments

Reading popularizations

Dear ______: I’ve been trying to help you rethink the process of reading when it comes to your course assignments in seminary. This is actually long term advice: whatever kind of work you end up doing, you’ll learn more of what you need day by day if you know how to make quick work of […]

Filed Under: Ministry, Seminary, Theology Tagged With: C.S. Lewis, Here I Stand, Mere Christianity, Online Reading Group, reading popularizations, Roland Bainton

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