{"id":4689,"date":"2014-09-23T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2014-09-22T14:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T19:22:57","slug":"creativity-and-the-christian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4689","title":{"rendered":"CREATIVITY AND THE CHRISTIAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many people including many Christians enjoy the creative process. As Christians we need to be careful of pandering or perhaps diminishing the importance of a fundamental Christian teaching.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then there is the marketing side of things. \u00a0What are appropriate ways to get the word out on our work? \u00a0And when do we, as is so common, simply become happy hucksters?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is understandable why Christians throughout the ages have wrestled to make sense of the creative process. \u00a0And it is understandable why some would rather steer clear and “stay pure.” \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are challenging issues to determine what is a principled use of creativity and what falls short. \u00a0I, for one, believe the benefits to the greater good is worth the risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Many people including many Christians enjoy the creative process. As Christians we need to be careful of pandering or perhaps diminishing the importance of a fundamental Christian teaching. Then there is the marketing side of things. \u00a0What are appropriate ways to get the word out on our work? \u00a0And when do we, as is so […]<\/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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","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=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4691,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions\/4691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}