{"id":2733,"date":"2013-11-23T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2013-11-22T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T03:41:49","slug":"literature-a-meeting-place-of-the-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2733","title":{"rendered":"LITERATURE, A MEETING PLACE OF THE MINDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/t3.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ_2RJ7SI2H28L2IpzRCydrjnrUKazVfCh8gDDx3BUMDvMxAF-Z0Q\" width=\"524\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A few months back I interviewed Karen Prior Swallow on her terrific <em>Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me<\/em>. \u00a0You can read it below in case you missed it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The interview got picked up by bloggers who typically have different views on theology. \u00a0It was gratifying to see. \u00a0Perhaps literature can provide a less combative place than theology to discuss serious issues! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theology, of course, is indispensable. \u00a0But if you want to discuss an issue Christians disagree about you may also want to consider picking up a good piece of literature along with your theology book. \u00a0So <em>Great Expectations<\/em> for contentment, <em>The Scarlet Letter<\/em> on sin, and how about <em>Moby Dick<\/em> for all kinds of issues, including a discussion about the sovereignty of God and &#8220;free will&#8221; of human beings? \u00a0Even with using literature that last one may still get a bit heated!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2360\">http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=2360<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back I interviewed Karen Prior Swallow on her terrific Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. \u00a0You can read it below in case you missed it. The interview got picked up by bloggers who typically have different views on theology. \u00a0It was gratifying to see. \u00a0Perhaps literature can provide a less combative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}