God's story extends to the bookends of human history and beyond, with Jesus Christ as the axis upon which it all turns. Many people have lived the revolutionary life from the Hebrew Patriarchs wandering the sands of the ancient world, to the fearless disciples of Jesus' day, to the great saints and souls of the Christendom era, and influential thinkers of the Modern world and beyond.
Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.
Kind of like Jesus.
Bartchy, currently the Director of the Center for the Study of Religions at UCLA, notes a great gap between the original, early form of church in the first three hundred years of Christianity, and the modern concept of doing church today.
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Scott Bartchy is a radical. He believes in a subversive system that embraces those on the fringes of our society and seeks to establish a new way of life that goes against the status quo.