{"id":1221,"date":"2013-05-23T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T16:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whiskeypreacher\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2013-05-23T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T18:47:04","slug":"part-1-with-the-postmodern-negro-being-pushed-into-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whiskeypreacher\/2013\/05\/part-1-with-the-postmodern-negro-being-pushed-into-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 1 With The Postmodern Negro: Being Pushed Into The Kingdom"},"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>As I continue to explore in asking the questions of what is next for the local and global church, I have had the amazing gift of having conversations with some incredible practitioners all over the U.S. Anthony Smith, a.k.a. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PostmoderNegro.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Postmodern Negro<\/a> is one of those practitioners who is changing what church looks like not only in his local-distinctively-African American-Bible Belt-Southern context, but also taking up the banner to challenge us in the global church to look\/examine at how and why we engage in some of the practices that we do. This is part 1 of a 3 part interview that I have done with Anthony entitled Being Pushed Into The Kingdom.<br>\n<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/237\/2013\/05\/60869_468941467173_5469736_n.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/237\/2013\/05\/60869_468941467173_5469736_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"60869_468941467173_5469736_n\" width=\"527\" height=\"368\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1222\"><\/a><br>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IqnbS5TxWHk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whiskeypreacher\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Outlaw Theology With The Whiskey Preacher<\/a> episodes are provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/sogomedia.tv\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sogo Media TV<\/a>.<\/center>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue to explore in asking the questions of what is next for the local and global church, I have had the amazing gift of having conversations with some incredible practitioners all over the U.S. Anthony Smith, a.k.a. 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