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title: 'Our Ritualed Lives: Part I | Central Presbyterian Church'
description: 'Lecture: Our Ritualed Lives: Part I'
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## Our Ritualed Lives: Part I

December 4, 2016   
 Dru Johnson

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Dru Johnson is an Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at The King's College in New York City, an associate director of the Jewish Philosophical Theology project with The Herzl Institute in Israel, and co-chairs the Hebrew Bible and Philosophy program unit in the Society of Biblical Literature. As a former skinhead, high school drop-out, veteran of counter-narcotics operations in Colombia, I.T. manager, and pastor, he currently spends most of his time raising his four children to become none of these things. He has published three books on the role of knowledge and ritual in the Bible.

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