{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontextmatters.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F0717-3Yi_3XE7","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Growing Pains of the Early Church","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/8bd398a2-dfc3-4662-bb8a-b7e502e69031/fd0380b4-7430-48da-8e8b-46512b99661c/contextmatters-artwork.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/81fc9e7b-8644-47e3-bef2-67d1ad009347\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Growing Pains of the Early Church\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"This is Part 2 of the conversation with Dr. Nadya Williams about her book Cultural Christians in the Early Church. This book argues that cultural Christians were the rule, rather than the exception, in the early church. While focusing on the Christians in the 1st to 5th centuries, their stories provide a fresh perspective for considering the difficult timeless questions that stubbornly persist in our own world and churches."}