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  <name><![CDATA[Bert Gary]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Bert Gary is a writer and lecturer. He has taught regularly in Israel since 1994. He has also taught in Jordan, Turkey, and Greece. For eleven years he directed and taught in two United Methodist graduate programs for local pastors for the Jerusalem Institute for Biblical Exploration (formerly the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies) and for Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He has degrees in theology, psychology, and music from Emory.

Bert has twenty-two years of experience in ordained ministry, and lives in Mississippi with his wife, Kathy. He has three children ages 23, 20, and 17---Martha, Will, and Anna. And Bert has three grown stepchildren---Reba, Cory, and Mac---and three step grandsons---Taylor, Sam, and Aden. Throw in Reba's husband, Paul, and his teenage boys, Justin and Josh, as well as Cory's husband, Chris, and we're the Brady Bunch--minus the polyester.

Among Bert’s other passions are archaeology and ornithology.

Author of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bertgary.com/jesus unpluggedindex.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Jesus Unplugged&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;i&gt;Jesus Unplugged exposes the provocative Jesus of the New Testament, a raw nerve Jesus who has been there right under our nose all along, but who has been hidden in plain view by preachers and teachers who avoid or sanitize much of what the Gospels tell us about the man from Nazareth.&lt;/i&gt;

Currently Bert is writing &quot;Heaven for Skeptics&quot; published also by FaithWalk, due out in late 2008.

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  <title><![CDATA[Jesus Unplugged: Provocative, Raw and Fully Exposed]]></title>
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