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Saturday, July 25, 2020

Nazarenes and Christians and Baptists, oh my!

THE ANXIOUS BENCH: Nazarenes and Christians and Baptists (Philip Jenkins).
SPOILER ALERT: Despite my title, this blogpost is not about the modern-day Baptist denomination. These aren’t the Baptists you’re looking for. You can go about your business.
These were ancient Baptists. It is not even clear that they were of the Christian variety.

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