{"id":9186,"date":"2017-03-13T12:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2017-03-13T12:24:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T16:24:26","slug":"cling-to-jesus-as-if-your-life-depends-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9186","title":{"rendered":"Cling to Jesus As If Your Life Depends on It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ng6D5l\"><em>The Benedict Option<\/em><\/a> is being released tomorrow. Collin Hansen reviews it here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/book-review-benedict-option\">My main fear with Dreher\u2019s book<\/a> is that the people who need it most won\u2019t read it. How do you convince Americans that replacing fast food and cable news with fasting and hard labor will be good for their souls?<\/p>\n<p>Overwhelming evangelical support for Trump suggests not many conservative Christians would agree with Dreher that \u201closing political power might just be the thing that saves the church\u2019s soul.\u201d Rather, they seem to believe the American Empire needs our partisan politics in service of God\u2019s kingdom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dreher will have many interviews this week. This one with Russell Moore is bound to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2017\/03\/10\/signposts-conversation-rod-dreher\/\">one of the better ones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Dreher&#8217;s The Benedict Option is being released tomorrow. Collin Hansen reviews it here. My main fear with Dreher\u2019s book is that the people who need it most won\u2019t read it. How do you convince Americans that replacing fast food and cable news with fasting and hard labor will be good for their souls? Overwhelming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9186\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cling to Jesus As If Your Life Depends on It<\/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":[165,500,2408,2784],"class_list":["post-9186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","category-religion","tag-american","tag-christianity","tag-rod-dreher","tag-the-benedict-option"],"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\/9186","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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}