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Mark Schaefer is a writer, editor, teacher, attorney, pastor, and language scholar. He is a freelance editor and writer and the author of several books including Religious, Not Spiritual, The Certainty of Uncertainty, The Good News According to Mark, and the science fiction novel Delivering the Commonwealth.

In addition to his writing and editing work, he currently pastors the ecumenical Congregation of St. Thomas the Doubter. With over two decades of ministry experience in collegiate and local church contexts, he has also served as an adjunct professor at the undergraduate and seminary levels, teaching courses in Religion, New Testament, and Biblical Greek.

Mark received his B.A. and M.A. in Russian Language and Literature from the State Uni ...more

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“If Jesus is the model of perfect faith, and his twin is Thomas, who models doubt, then what we understand is that faith and doubt are not antitheses—they’re twins.”
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