{"id":4257,"date":"2007-09-21T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/09\/trying-on-other-religions-for-size\/"},"modified":"2007-09-21T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T16:24:00","slug":"trying-on-other-religions-for-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2007\/09\/trying-on-other-religions-for-size.html","title":{"rendered":"Trying On Other Religions For Size"},"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 student of ours at Butler University, Diane Hardin, undertook a very interesting religion project as part of her studies. Unfortunately I haven\u2019t been able to figure out how to include the clip directly in this post in any other way, so here is a link to the clip that appeared on the local news:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"607\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"middle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"37\" src=\"https:\/\/wishtv.images.worldnow.com\/images\/static\/hdr\/hdr_607x37.gif\" width=\"607\" border=\"0\"> \n<table cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"607\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"607\" colspan=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/global\/video\/popup\/pop_playerLaunch.asp?clipid1=1750597&amp;at1=News&amp;vt1=v&amp;h1=Butler+Student+Experiences+Other+Religions+for+Learning&amp;d1=123800&amp;redirUrl=www.wishtv.com&amp;activePane=info&amp;LaunchPageAdTag=homepage\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:100%\"><b>Butler Student Experiences Other Religions for Learning<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"124\">\n<table cellspacing=\"7\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"124\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wishtv.com\/global\/video\/popup\/pop_playerLaunch.asp?clipid1=1750597&amp;at1=News&amp;vt1=v&amp;h1=Butler+Student+Experiences+Other+Religions+for+Learning&amp;d1=123800&amp;redirUrl=www.wishtv.com&amp;activePane=info&amp;LaunchPageAdTag=homepage\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"81\" alt=\"Clip_Summary_Image\" src=\"http:\/\/wishtv.images.worldnow.com\/images\/1750597_vk.jpg\" width=\"108\" border=\"0\"><br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"18\" alt=\"Play_Now_Button\" src=\"https:\/\/wishtv.images.worldnow.com\/images\/static\/gfx\/pxl_trans.gif\" width=\"108\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"441\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Verdana,Arial;font-size:78%\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll need a version of Windows Media Player 7 or higher to view the video. 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