{"id":18945,"date":"2013-11-07T21:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18945"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:35:43","slug":"time-and-relative-dimensions-in-faith-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/time-and-relative-dimensions-in-faith-arrives.html","title":{"rendered":"Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith Arrives"},"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 href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/TARDIF-arrives.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-18946\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2013\/11\/TARDIF-arrives.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"323\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today there was a large sack, much like I would expect Santa to use, sitting in front of my door. But it was blue, and had \u201cRoyal Mail\u201d written on it. It was several copies of the new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0232530211\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0232530211&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0232530211\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/em> which I co-edited with Andrew Crome. 366 pages chock full of wibbly wobbly timey wimey Whovian goodness. TARDIF has arrived!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today there was a large sack, much like I would expect Santa to use, sitting in front of my door. 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