{"id":17199,"date":"2013-08-30T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=17199"},"modified":"2013-08-30T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T14:06:07","slug":"animate-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/08\/animate-bible.html","title":{"rendered":"Animate Bible"},"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>Through the Patheos network, it was suggested that I ought to take a look at a new series called <a href=\"http:\/\/wearesparkhouse.org\/adults\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Animate: Faith<\/a>. I glanced, was not immediately excited, and left it at that. But today, <a href=\"http:\/\/pomomusings.com\/2013\/08\/29\/animate-bible\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adam Cleveland mentioned another part of the series<\/a>, Animate: Bible, and included a screenshot which grabbed my attention:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/animate-bible.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17200\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/08\/animate-bible.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"424\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That got my attention, and when I took a look at the video by Rachel Held Evans from which this is a screenshot, there was so much to appreciate about it. Here is the entire video:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rachel Held Evans on Testaments - Session 3 from Animate: Bible Curriculum for Adults Small Groups\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iPyaR89jQC4?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>\n<p>If that looks interesting, then you can <a href=\"http:\/\/wearesparkhouse.org\/adults\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">click through and explore more from the same series<\/a>.<span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through the Patheos network, it was suggested that I ought to take a look at a new series called Animate: Faith. I glanced, was not immediately excited, and left it at that. 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