{"id":1892,"date":"2009-12-01T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-religion-beat\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T12:14:00","slug":"the-religion-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/12\/the-religion-beat.html","title":{"rendered":"The Religion Beat"},"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>A new blog came to my attention today. It is called <a href=\"http:\/\/religionbeat.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Religion Beat<\/a>, and it is a collaborative blog project connected with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chass.utoronto.ca\/rps\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Religion in the Public Sphere<\/a> project at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religion.utoronto.ca\/Page13.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">University of Toronto<\/a>. The most recent post (of which there are only three thus far) is on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/religionbeat.blogspot.com\/2009\/11\/origins-of-ray-comforts-darwin-text-as.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Origins of Ray Comfort\u2019s Darwin<\/a>\u201d and links to both my blog and <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2009\/10\/23\/whats-so-bad-about-the-conservative-bible-project\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim Linville\u2019s<\/a>. It looks like a blog worth keeping an eye on!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3592598786748673858?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new blog came to my attention today. 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