{"id":613,"date":"2012-12-07T07:24:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankviola\/?p=613"},"modified":"2015-02-06T11:57:10","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T15:57:10","slug":"evangelicalchristianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/frankviola\/evangelicalchristianity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sinking Ship of Evangelical Christianity"},"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>This blog post has been revised, retitled, and turned into a chapter in <a href=\"http:\/\/frankviola.org\/rethinkingseries\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Beyond Evangelical<\/a> which is part of my Entire eBook Library.<\/p>\n<p>The library includes each book in PDF, Kindle, and Nook formats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frankviola.org\/rethinkingseries\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to view the Table of Contents for each book and how to get it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frankviola.org\/rethinkingseries\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17234\" src=\"https:\/\/frankviola.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/rethinking_series_banners-03-e1421024823150.jpg\" alt=\"rethinking_series_banners-03\" width=\"570\" height=\"229\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog post has been revised, retitled, and turned into a chapter in Beyond Evangelical which is part of my Entire eBook Library. 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