{"id":9831,"date":"2025-03-23T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T23:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9831"},"modified":"2025-03-23T18:32:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T23:32:26","slug":"terrific-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9831","title":{"rendered":"TERRIFIC INTERVIEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When people ask John Mark Reynolds why we should read books other than the Bible, his response is brilliant: &#8220;Why are you talking to me when you could be talking to God?&#8221; He goes on to mention how it is obviously better for humans to talk to God, but we humans crave human interaction&#8230;something God has instilled in us.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And this: &#8220;Reading is a kind of licit necromancy.&#8221; We get to talk to those who are long dead.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And my suggestion is to look for an opportunity at your next dinner party to blithely mention the glories of &#8220;licit necromancy!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest of the interview is here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Mark Reynolds: A revival is happening in Eastern Orthodoxy\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1L3hn6UPTN0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people ask John Mark Reynolds why we should read books other than the Bible, his response is brilliant: &#8220;Why are you talking to me when you could be talking to God?&#8221; He goes on to mention how it is obviously better for humans to talk to God, but we humans crave human interaction&#8230;something God [&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":[191,37,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-orthodoxy","category-learningeducation","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831","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=9831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9835,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9831\/revisions\/9835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}