{"id":8422,"date":"2016-10-02T22:38:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8422"},"modified":"2016-10-02T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T02:38:02","slug":"scrubbing-a-story-of-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8422","title":{"rendered":"Scrubbing a Story of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark Reynolds reviews <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2016\/09\/a_near_miss\">Disney&#8217;s new movie,\u00a0<em>Queen of Katwe, <\/em><\/a>which has many great things going for it, except that the &#8220;based on a true story&#8221; part can&#8217;t find a way to articulate the Christian motives of its characters.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Anybody want to bet whether a Ugandan evangelical ministry ever talks about Jesus? Why is this offensive? . . . Disney shows that it can get Uganda sort-of-right, but Uganda\u2019s pervasive Christianity must be minimized. We should ask: \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark Reynolds reviews Disney&#8217;s new movie,\u00a0Queen of Katwe, which has many great things going for it, except that the &#8220;based on a true story&#8221; part can&#8217;t find a way to articulate the Christian motives of its characters. Anybody want to bet whether a Ugandan evangelical ministry ever talks about Jesus? Why is this offensive? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=8422\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scrubbing a Story of Christians<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[10,14],"tags":[500,775,1934],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-religion","tag-christianity","tag-disney","tag-movies"],"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\/8422","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}