{"id":1795,"date":"2009-12-27T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-27T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-blue-parakeet-in-sunday-school\/"},"modified":"2009-12-27T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-27T13:20:00","slug":"the-blue-parakeet-in-sunday-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-blue-parakeet-in-sunday-school.html","title":{"rendered":"The Blue Parakeet In Sunday School"},"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>Starting next Sunday, my Sunday school class will be reading Scot McKnight\u2019s book <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0310284880?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0310284880\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0310284880\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px\" width=\"1\"><\/i> together. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be reading chapter 1 for next time. <\/p>\n<p>For those who may be interested, I previously <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/09\/blue-parakeet.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reviewed the book<\/a> here on this blog.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1512297724540749955?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next Sunday, my Sunday school class will be reading Scot McKnight\u2019s book The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible together. 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