{"id":9333,"date":"2022-04-21T16:36:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9333"},"modified":"2022-04-21T16:38:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T21:38:02","slug":"what-are-christians-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9333","title":{"rendered":"WHAT ARE CHRISTIANS FOR?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jake Meador&#8217;s <em>What Are Christians For?<\/em> was published a few months ago. Instead of the standard book review, I am going to mention five things I appreciated about Meador&#8217;s book:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Meador is an elegant and lucid writer.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*The author is compassionate <em>and<\/em> courageous in telling us some harder truths.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*There is a winsome and compelling treatment of how to steward the material world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>* There are beautiful reminders that place and people matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*Last, and certainly not least, Meador shows how the Christian faith makes sense of life and is in fact the best way to order one&#8217;s life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What Are Christians For?: Life Together at the End of the World\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_O4eUWrElUccFSW&#038;asin=0830847367&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Meador&#8217;s What Are Christians For? was published a few months ago. Instead of the standard book review, I am going to mention five things I appreciated about Meador&#8217;s book: *Meador is an elegant and lucid writer. *The author is compassionate and courageous in telling us some harder truths. *There is a winsome and compelling [&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":[12,90,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-character","category-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333","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=9333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9336,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9333\/revisions\/9336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}