{"id":5500,"date":"2015-05-12T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:40:32","slug":"wave-your-wand-5-0-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=5500","title":{"rendered":"WAVE YOUR WAND 6.0"},"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>Tony Debenport is a dear friend and a careful student of the Bible.\u00a0 Tony is Senior Program Manager at Lam Research.\u00a0 Here are Tony&#8217;s selections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pentateuch. That isn&#8217;t a joke.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>On an non-biblical list I&#8217;d include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>-A good Church history book covering the last 200 years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>-Eusebius History of the Church or perhaps\/and \u00a0a more recent book on the history of Church heresies\/heretics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>-A book on modern entertainment culture: \u00a0Amusing Ourselves to Death (Neil Postman)&#8230;perhaps Empire of Illusion (Chris Hedges)..on my reading list so I can&#8217;t recommend yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>basically&#8230;.history, history, history &amp; today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/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. Tony Debenport is a dear friend and a careful student of the Bible.\u00a0 Tony is Senior Program Manager at [&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-5500","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\/5500","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=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5503,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}