{"id":7405,"date":"2016-02-05T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2016-02-05T19:42:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T00:42:25","slug":"chad-bird-on-the-novelist-as-priest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7405","title":{"rendered":"Chad Bird on the novelist as priest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gene Edward Veith <\/strong>at <em>Cranach <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2016\/02\/how-god-uses-fiction\/#more-23133\">links to an article by Chad Bird<\/a> on how fiction brought him to Christian faith.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unbeknownst to me at the time, however, something else was happening. The God against whom I had rebelled, and from whom I was fleeing, began to use these very works of fiction to beckon me home. As it turned out, the novels in which I had sought escape, became part of the means whereby the Lord rescued me from my own death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Edward Veith at Cranach links to an article by Chad Bird on how fiction brought him to Christian faith. Unbeknownst to me at the time, however, something else was happening. The God against whom I had rebelled, and from whom I was fleeing, began to use these very works of fiction to beckon me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chad Bird on the novelist as priest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[2,7,14],"tags":[463,500,964,1049],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction","category-religion","tag-chad-bird","tag-christianity","tag-fiction","tag-gene-edward-veith"],"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\/7405","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=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}