Author
Michael B. Brown
Senior minister, Marble Collegiate Church
The Rev. Dr. Michael B. Brown is senior minister of Marble Collegiate Church in New York City, one of the oldest Protestant congregations in America. Formerly the senior minister of Centenary United Methodist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C., Brown has written five books and contributed to 11 others. His most recent book is “Bottom Line Beliefs.”
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