{"id":69218,"date":"2025-02-10T01:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/?p=69218"},"modified":"2025-01-23T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T01:31:09","slug":"the-speck-of-dust-a-symphonic-theological-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/bibleandculture\/2025\/02\/10\/the-speck-of-dust-a-symphonic-theological-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Speck of Dust&#8211; A Symphonic Theological Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Speck of Dust - Leonid &amp; Friends\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a1zNRIs0OiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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