{"id":3258,"date":"2008-12-04T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/somewhat-evangelical\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T11:04:00","slug":"somewhat-evangelical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/12\/somewhat-evangelical.html","title":{"rendered":"Somewhat Evangelical"},"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>That\u2019s how I ranked in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.larknews.com\/guide\/test.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quiz<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/jwest.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/04\/how-evangelical-are-you\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jim West<\/a> directed us to. And that sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p>There seems to be an increase in willingness among at least some Evangelicals to be self-critical. And one good but challenging place to start, if you haven\u2019t already, is by watching the video excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/view_play_list?p=074948454F72EFFF\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">God on Trial<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/revfreda.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/god-on-trial-rabbi-speaks.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fred Anderson<\/a> shared on his blog:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<\/p><div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3184621141677368637?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s how I ranked in the quiz that Jim West directed us to. And that sounds about right. 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