{"id":1230,"date":"2010-09-22T13:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groansfromwithin.com\/"},"modified":"2015-11-03T13:22:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:22:06","slug":"beliefs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thepangeablog\/about\/beliefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Beliefs"},"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>Throughout the past couple years of blogging, I have encountered many questions regarding what I believe.\u00a0 Some who come to my blog are not aware of the Anabaptist Tradition or think that Mennonites are like Weird Al who once said: \u201cI never wear buttons, but I got a cool hat, and my homies agree I really look good in black\u2026 FOOL!\u201d (Weird Al, Amish Paradise).\u00a0 What I have attempted to do is to give a window into my faith tradition by stating what I believe as a Christian of Anabaptist\/evangelical descent.<\/p>\n<h1>1) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thepangeablog\/about\/beliefs\/theology-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Theology Statement<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thepangeablog\/about\/beliefs\/anabaptism\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">Anabaptism<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>3) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepangeablog.com\/2010\/09\/16\/jesus-nothing-everything\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus + Nothing = Everything!<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the past couple years of blogging, I have encountered many questions regarding what I believe.\u00a0 Some who come to my blog are not aware of the Anabaptist Tradition or think that Mennonites are like Weird Al who once said: \u201cI never wear buttons, but I got a cool hat, and my homies agree I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":1214,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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