{"id":3062,"date":"2014-01-13T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T06:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2014-01-12T23:38:47","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T05:38:47","slug":"does-god-still-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"DOES GOD STILL SPEAK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mut\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/bakertaylor\/covers\/w\/when-god-talks-back\/9780307277275_custom-22f2617ee04849cb2c6c22a0745fb7f6ed18b93a-s6-c30.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Noted Stanford anthropologist (technically a psychological anthropologist), Tanya Luhrmann, has written a fascinating book. In it, she describes hanging out with various Charismatic Christians to determine whether they are actually hearing God speak or perhaps crazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luhrmann&#8217;s account shows the limitations of saying one is a &#8220;detached observer.&#8221; Yes, she does serious academic work, and yes she seeks to be objective, but let&#8217;s face it, this is a decidedly subjective issue.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Luhrmann&#8217;s graciousness and even sympathy for those involved in her study moves her own beliefs some. Read and see what I am talking about, but more importantly, whether God is still talking today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noted Stanford anthropologist (technically a psychological anthropologist), Tanya Luhrmann, has written a fascinating book. In it, she describes hanging out with various Charismatic Christians to determine whether they are actually hearing God speak or perhaps crazy. Luhrmann&#8217;s account shows the limitations of saying one is a &#8220;detached observer.&#8221; Yes, she does serious academic work, and [&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":[12,43,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-christianity","category-doubt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062","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=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}