{"id":5513,"date":"2013-10-11T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T22:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2013-10-11T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T22:59:04","slug":"osteenian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":""Osteenian""},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I got an e-mail<\/strong> from super-author Andrew Klavan, directing me to this column<\/a> on his blog, in which he gives me a nice plug.
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Novelist Lars Walker \u2014 a friend of this blog and an insightful reviewer of some of my own novels \u2014 makes a trenchant comment in the Elizabeth Smart post below. I know it\u2019s trenchant because I was about to make basically the same comment but Lars beat me to it! In the comment, he makes a delightfully concise reference to \u201cthe Osteenian view that suffering is always a sign of God\u2019s displeasure.\u201d This, of course, refers to popular preacher Joel Osteen, who has been promoting his new book at the Blaze and other places. He basically preaches that God wants wonderful things for your life and you only have to open yourself to God\u2019s will in order to receive those blessings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He was particularly pleased, he said, by my use of the adjective “Osteenian,” meaning theological ideas in line with Joel Osteen’s preaching. He seems to think I may have coined it, though I find it hard to believe nobody’s used it before.<\/p>\n

In any case, this counts as a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I got an e-mail from super-author Andrew Klavan, directing me to this column on his blog, in which he gives me a nice plug. Novelist Lars Walker \u2014 a friend of this blog and an insightful reviewer of some of my own novels \u2014 makes a trenchant comment in the Elizabeth Smart post below. … Continue reading "Osteenian"<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-social-media","category-religion"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}