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First, I hope you all saw that Canon: The Card Game was featured in the online periodical\u00a0Christian Today.\u00a0I thought the author, Joseph Hartropp, did a fantastic job of conveying the essence of the game and the things that led to its creation. Before that,\u00a0Doug Chaplin shared thoughts on the canon\u2019s blurry edges. The things he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":41257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,85],"tags":[1140,1148,1555,2157,2226,10886],"class_list":["post-41256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","category-games","category-science","tag-bible","tag-biblical","tag-canon","tag-constantine","tag-council-of-nicaea","tag-science"],"yoast_head":"\n
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