{"id":10902,"date":"2015-01-10T21:23:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T02:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2017-01-26T19:14:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T00:14:31","slug":"finding-god-in-the-damnedest-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thecrescat\/2015\/01\/finding-god-in-the-damnedest-places.html","title":{"rendered":"Finding God in the Damnedest Places&#8230;"},"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>\u2026 I found God in a painting a Hell. I know a guy who found God while fishing. And I got one friend who swears he had a life changing vision of God in a gay bar and immediately turned his life around. <\/p>\n<p>So what does having spiritually life changing experiences have to with paintings, fishing, and gay bars? Well, God comes to us where and when He comes to us. Whenever we are receptive He makes Himself known. And yes, I suppose He can come to us during a liturgical dance performance. <\/p>\n<p>You see, I keep hearing this defense being made for liturgical dance\u2026 that it can be a legitimately uplifting spiritual experience.     <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026 I found God in a painting a Hell. I know a guy who found God while fishing. And I got one friend who swears he had a life changing vision of God in a gay bar and immediately turned his life around. 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