{"id":1640,"date":"2015-07-10T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2015-07-10T16:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T20:43:58","slug":"readers-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1640","title":{"rendered":"Readers&#8217; recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have two links today from <i>Civil Commotion<\/i> readers, both worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>First, rightly and sarcastically characterized as reminiscent of a <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> skit, a couple of Holy Men address the question, &#8220;Do People in Heaven Know What Is Happening on Earth?&#8221;  Keep in mind as you watch this that it is supposed to be a learned, serious conversation about an important matter.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oXTEa8wBhp0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Second, an actually thoughtful sermon by Dr. Jim Somerville, Pastor of Richmond, Virginia&#8217;s First Baptist Church.  I reject most of his premises, as I imagine most readers do, but within the framework of those premises he clearly is struggling to find a position that is both consonant with Christian teaching and not utterly irrelevant to the world around him.  He deserves respect for that.  Bonus: He&#8217;s not a buffoonish howler; in fact, you can hardly even tell he&#8217;s a Southern Baptist.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/132256658?byline=0&#038;portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/132256658\">In Light of Recent Events<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/fbcrichmond\">Richmond&#039;s First Baptist Church<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have two links today from Civil Commotion readers, both worthwhile. First, rightly and sarcastically characterized as reminiscent of a Saturday Night Live skit, a couple of Holy Men address the question, &#8220;Do People in Heaven Know What Is Happening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1640\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}