{"id":9259,"date":"2021-12-10T11:57:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T19:14:51","slug":"whats-missing-in-many-christian-bookstores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9259","title":{"rendered":"WHAT IS MISSING IN MANY CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORES?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Below are the categories one Christian bookstore lists for the books they carry. Having been in many Christian bookstores, the example below is not unique. There are some important categories that are missing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I imagine that they have put history, theology, and apologetics under &#8220;academics,&#8221; but see what they are saying by doing so? These areas of study are viewed as a hobby of sorts for the more cerebral Christian. They are no longer viewed as areas that all Christians must study.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Christian Living<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Children&#8217;s Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Family &amp; Relationships<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Men&#8217;s Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Church<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Devotionals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Women&#8217;s Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Charismatic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Spirituality<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Personal Growth<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biographies &amp; Autobiography<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Arts &amp; Photography<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Teen &amp; Young Adult<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gift Books<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Academics<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Business &amp; Investing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Cooking<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are the categories one Christian bookstore lists for the books they carry. Having been in many Christian bookstores, the example below is not unique. There are some important categories that are missing. I imagine that they have put history, theology, and apologetics under &#8220;academics,&#8221; but see what they are saying by doing so? These [&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":[91,43,178,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookstore","category-christianity","category-history","category-theology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","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=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}