{"id":3719,"date":"2008-05-08T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/grades-are-in-let-summer-begin\/"},"modified":"2008-05-08T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T10:30:00","slug":"grades-are-in-let-summer-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/grades-are-in-let-summer-begin.html","title":{"rendered":"Grades are in, let summer begin!"},"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>Now that grades are in there is time to read\u2026<\/p>\n<p>John Pieret today highlights some <a href=\"http:\/\/dododreams.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/explosive-exegesis.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">apocalyptic exegesis<\/a>. Anyone remember the booklet <em>88 Reasons Why The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energionpubs.com\/blog\/?p=99\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rapture<\/a> Will Be In 1988?<\/em> If not, don\u2019t worry, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/godspolitics\/2008\/05\/voice-of-the-day-robert-jewett.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">this generation<\/a> is going to have its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldnetdaily.com\/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=63076\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">own version<\/a>.<br>First Things reflects on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=1067\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">theodicy and yet more natural disasters<\/a>.<br>Vridar continues <a href=\"http:\/\/vridar.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/08\/resurrection-response-to-wrights-arguments-5\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">responding to Wright on the resurrection<\/a>.<br><a href=\"http:\/\/badidea.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/08\/kenneth-millers-editorial-on-ben-steins-anti-evolutionary-expelled\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Bad Idea Blog<\/a> points out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/editorial_opinion\/oped\/articles\/2008\/05\/08\/trouble_ahead_for_science\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ken Miller\u2019s response to <em>Expelled<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also time to watch LOST, <a href=\"http:\/\/marcrust.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/battlestar-last-supper.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">and<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2008\/03\/01\/the-battlestar-galactica-last-supper\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a>, and catch up with Doctor Who!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20169703,00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2158\/2177726792_7b0e59cfbd.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time Immortal interacts with a post of mine about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeimmortal.net\/2008\/05\/06\/reader-mail-theology-of-battlestar-galactica\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">theology and Battlestar Galactica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-721915281994865615?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that grades are in there is time to read\u2026 John Pieret today highlights some apocalyptic exegesis. Anyone remember the booklet 88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be In 1988? If not, don\u2019t worry, this generation is going to have its own version.First Things reflects on theodicy and yet more natural disasters.Vridar continues responding to [&hellip;]<\/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-3719","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>Grades are in, let summer begin!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Now that grades are in there is time to read...John Pieret today highlights some apocalyptic exegesis. 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