{"id":6729,"date":"2015-01-09T11:11:29","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T19:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6729"},"modified":"2015-01-09T22:59:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T06:59:05","slug":"7-quick-takes-responses-to-the-newsweek-article-and-not-quite-seven-takes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6729","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Responses to the Newsweek Article and Not Quite Seven Takes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Newsweek article.<\/strong>  If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock or have been taking care of sick kids lately (my life), you might not have heard about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/01\/02\/thats-not-what-bible-says-294018.html\" title=\"The Bible: So Misunderstood It's a Sin (Newsweek)\">the Newsweek article by Kurt Eichenwald<\/a> about the Bible and why it is so misunderstood.  I could write about a years worth of posts addressing every inconsistency in his arguments and how completely skewed his information is but I have too much on my plate right now so&#8230; read the article and then read these commentaries by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/peterenns\/2015\/01\/the-newsweek-christmas-rant-on-the-bible-naive-over-the-top-and-basically-right\/\" title=\"the Newsweek Christmas rant on The Bible: naive, over-the-top\u2013and basically right\">Peter Enns<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/danielbwallace.com\/2014\/12\/28\/predictable-christmas-fare-newsweeks-tirade-against-the-bible\/\" title=\"Predictable Christmas fare: Newsweek\u2019s Tirade against the Bible\">Daniel B. Wallace<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/01\/06\/living\/newsweek-evangelicals\/index.html\" title=\"CNN.Com: What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals\">Rachel Held Evans<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2014\/12\/29\/newsweek-on-the-bible-so-misrepresented-its-a-sin\/\" title=\"AlbertMohler.Com: Newsweek on the Bible \u2014 So Misrepresented It\u2019s a Sin\">Albert Mohler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those whose New Tear&#8217;s resolutions involve the gym&#8230;<\/strong>  There were a couple of articles that piqued my curiosity.  One was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/10-things-personal-trainers-wont-tell-you-2014-12-19\" title=\"Market Watch: 10 things personal trainers won\u2019t tell you \">the ten things that personal trainers don&#8217;t tell you<\/a> and the other was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatthis.com\/slideshow\/7-sports-drinks-actually-work#sharetagsfocus\" title=\"Eat This: 7 Sports Drinks That Actually Work\">what you should be drinking when you work out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>My cuddlebug.<\/strong>  Daniel is having a lot of coughing and a runny nose due to allergies so we&#8217;re having to do breathing treatments.  Not feeling his best has made him extra cuddly and he actually fell asleep in my arms last night about 5 minutes after finishing the breathing treatment.  When he is up, he has been a muted version of himself which is lovely but I can tell that he would like to be doing more.  I&#8217;ve been praising the really good behavior that comes as part of his muted self in hopes that some of it might stick around.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ending here.<\/strong>  I have nothing left to say so I&#8217;m going to call this good and link up.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8212; 1 &#8212; The Newsweek article. If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock or have been taking care of sick kids lately (my life), you might not have heard about the Newsweek article by Kurt Eichenwald about the Bible and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,1,2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksmagazines","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1Kx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6732,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6729\/revisions\/6732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}