{"id":3906,"date":"2005-06-27T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-27T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owenstrachan.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/27\/a-christian-reality-tv-show\/"},"modified":"2005-06-27T19:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-27T19:15:00","slug":"a-christian-reality-tv-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thoughtlife\/2005\/06\/a-christian-reality-tv-show\/","title":{"rendered":"A Christian Reality TV Show"},"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>Seems a solid idea, to me. With cultural observers suddenly fascinated by the discovery of evangelicals, what could more satiate the fix than a show chronicling the lives of five twentysomething Christians? The dynamics for great tv are all there: romantic frustration, major life decisions, conflicts over doctrine and personality, interaction between Christians and non-Christians. I\u2019m not necessarily saying I support this idea, but I certainly think that it could be a smash with a culture fond of eyeing evangelicals. What did they think\u2013that we died out in the nineteenth century, slain by Mr. Darwin and his ever-evolving theory of evolution? Nope. We\u2019re alive and well, our votes have helped change the political face of the country in the last decade, and we regularly respirate and occasionally perspire.<\/p>\n<p>Now make a show about us so we can all be fascinated.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems a solid idea, to me. With cultural observers suddenly fascinated by the discovery of evangelicals, what could more satiate the fix than a show chronicling the lives of five twentysomething Christians? 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