{"id":5495,"date":"2015-05-11T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T05:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5495"},"modified":"2015-05-07T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T17:42:15","slug":"wave-your-wand-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5495","title":{"rendered":"WAVE YOUR WAND 5.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick?\u00a0Here is the next installment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Scholl holds a PhD in Medieval History. \u00a0He was a Fulbright scholar and currently teaches at Trinity Classical School of Houston and at Houston Baptist University.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is John&#8217;s list:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>1) The Bible &#8212; probably that is assumed here, since I know you, but not every Christian assumes it, so I include it here.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>2) The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>3) Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>4) Martyrdom of Polycarp<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ok, I could only think of 4, but its a tall order: five books &#8220;for all Christians.&#8221; I have been influenced by alot of novels and history books, but they would not be helpful for lots of people.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am asking a number of friends to answer the following question: If you could wave a magical wand which caused all Christians to read five books, what works would you pick?\u00a0Here is the next installment. John Scholl holds a PhD in Medieval History. \u00a0He was a Fulbright scholar and currently teaches at Trinity Classical [&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":[43,16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-reading","category-spiritual-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","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=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5498,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions\/5498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}