Mark Kelly has worked as a newspaper and magazine journalist since 1978. The son of a Baptist pastor in Oklahoma, he decided to follow Jesus at age 6 and was licensed to the gospel ministry at 17. He met his wife, Cheryl, while serving as a campus minister in Chicago, and they have two children, Megan and Graham. He is a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and has studied at the University of Chicago Divinity School and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. His publishing enterprise, Kainos Press, began its ministry with “Advance!” – a free e-mail newsletter that helps believers pray for the unreached, persecuted, and oppressed and which now enjoys worldwide circulation. The mission of Kainos Press (http://kainospress.com) is to help Christians understand God’s kingdom in a new and fresh way. He can be contacted by e-mailing mark@kainospress.com.
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Bible scholar suggests ‘Mark of the Beast’ may not be 666 after all
Canadian Bible scholar Wes Huff is encouraging Christians to reexamine a widely held assumption about Revelation 13:18—that the number of the beast is definitively 666. According to Huff, some of the earliest and most respected manuscripts suggest a different number altogether: 616.
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“Sinners”: Gospel distorted by ethnicity and regionalism
In the latest installment of his Bricolage in the Movie series, Dr. Ukjoo Park offers a cultural-theological reading of Sinners, a supernatural drama directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in the racially segregated 1930s Mississippi Delta, the film follows two Black brothers who operate a juke joint while battling vampires—and racism.
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