{"id":1184,"date":"2010-09-01T10:26:54","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2010\/09\/the-jesus-seminar--25-years-later.html"},"modified":"2010-09-01T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T10:26:54","slug":"the-jesus-seminar-25-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/09\/the-jesus-seminar-25-years-later.html","title":{"rendered":"The Jesus Seminar&#8212; 25 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Down%20Under2010%20076-thumb-500x281-17162.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Down Under2010 076.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/137\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/08\/Down%20Under2010%20076-thumb-500x281-17162-thumb-500x281-17163.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>Jeff MacDonald, a good journalist has written an article for the Religious News Service which has now appeared in the Huffington Post about the impact of the Jesus Seminar 25 years later, and what they are up to now.&nbsp; Here is the link to the article&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/31\/jesus-seminar-celebrates-_n_701396.html<\/p>\n<p>You will discover that my friend Richard Hays at Duke and I were interviewed for the article about the conservative reaction to the Jesus Seminar.&nbsp; See what you think.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>BW3<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff MacDonald, a good journalist has written an article for the Religious News Service which has now appeared in the Huffington Post about the impact of the Jesus Seminar 25 years later, and what they are up to now.&nbsp; Here is the link to the article&#8230;.. http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/31\/jesus-seminar-celebrates-_n_701396.html You will discover that my friend Richard Hays&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Jesus Seminar- 25 Years Later - The Bible and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2010\/09\/the-jesus-seminar-25-years-later.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Jesus Seminar- 25 Years Later - The Bible and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jeff MacDonald, a good journalist has written an article for the Religious News Service which has now appeared in the Huffington Post about the impact of the Jesus Seminar 25 years later, and what they are up to now.&nbsp; 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