{"id":2043,"date":"2009-10-05T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/we-didnt-start-the-fire-church-history-in-four-minutes\/"},"modified":"2009-10-05T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T11:56:00","slug":"we-didnt-start-the-fire-church-history-in-four-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/we-didnt-start-the-fire-church-history-in-four-minutes.html","title":{"rendered":"We Didn&#8217;t Start The Fire: Church History in Four Minutes"},"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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xSu4pbhaOQY&amp;feature=player_embedded\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a>, offering church history in 4 minutes to the tune of Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start The Fire\u201d, seemed worth sharing:<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Church History in 4 minutes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xSu4pbhaOQY?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>HT <a href=\"http:\/\/kingofpeace.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/we-didnt-start-fire.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Irenic Thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3459012658597561750?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video, offering church history in 4 minutes to the tune of Billy Joel\u2019s \u201cWe Didn\u2019t Start The Fire\u201d, seemed worth sharing: HT Irenic Thoughts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>We Didn&#039;t Start The Fire: Church History in Four Minutes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This video, offering church history in 4 minutes to the tune of Billy Joel&#039;s &quot;We Didn&#039;t Start The Fire&quot;, seemed worth sharing:HT Irenic Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/we-didnt-start-the-fire-church-history-in-four-minutes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"We Didn&#039;t Start The Fire: Church History in Four Minutes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This video, offering church history in 4 minutes to the tune of Billy Joel&#039;s &quot;We Didn&#039;t Start The Fire&quot;, seemed worth sharing:HT Irenic Thoughts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/10\/we-didnt-start-the-fire-church-history-in-four-minutes.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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