{"id":3412,"date":"2008-10-07T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/colberts-classroom\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T22:15:00","slug":"colberts-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/10\/colberts-classroom.html","title":{"rendered":"Colbert&#8217;s Classroom"},"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:\/\/images.zap2it.com\/20050930\/stephencolbert_colbertreport_240.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.zap2it.com\/20050930\/stephencolbert_colbertreport_240.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>In an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/home\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen Colbert<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/TV\/10\/06\/colbert.fun.playing.jerk.ap\/index.html?eref=ew\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">today\u2019s newspaper<\/a>, it mentioned that something he likes to do and hopes to begin doing again soon is <i>teach <a href=\"http:\/\/fikatime.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/colbert-teaches-sunday-school.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sunday school<\/a><\/i>. Now <i>that<\/i> would be a fun class to attend!<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvsquad.com\/2006\/07\/13\/ask-tv-squad-stephen-colbert-teaches-sundayschool\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">old news<\/a>, but I wasn\u2019t aware of it until today.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if he\u2019ll be willing to regularly offer some <a href=\"http:\/\/catholiccolbert.com\/?p=90\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sunday school clips<\/a> online somewhere. There\u2019s nothing like laughter to help people cope with thinking about tough questions and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richarddawkins.net\/article,210,Stephen-Colbert-Interviews-Richard-Dawkins,The-Colbert-Report\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">challenging topics<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4071590282656968374?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Stephen Colbert in today\u2019s newspaper, it mentioned that something he likes to do and hopes to begin doing again soon is teach Sunday school. Now that would be a fun class to attend! Apparently this is old news, but I wasn\u2019t aware of it until today. 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