{"id":14,"date":"2009-05-10T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2009\/05\/a-cool-deal-for-you--sacred-and-mundane.html"},"modified":"2009-05-10T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T13:39:00","slug":"a-cool-deal-for-you-sacred-and-mundane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/05\/a-cool-deal-for-you-sacred-and-mundane.html","title":{"rendered":"A COOL DEAL FOR YOU&#8211; SACRED AND MUNDANE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SgcRgTwIqSI\/AAAAAAAACRQ\/VEMbyxwa8aw\/s1600-h\/31AS5lzlu8L._SL500_AA200_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 200px;height: 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SgcRgTwIqSI\/AAAAAAAACRQ\/VEMbyxwa8aw\/s400\/31AS5lzlu8L._SL500_AA200_.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just this week my little book of sacred and mundane poems came out, thanks to the hard work of Leah Maines, and I have a deal for you long devoted readers!  I will send you free a copy of this new book (you provide me with a self-addressed stamped mailer, sent to my seminary address-  SPO Asbury Theo. Seminary, N. Lexington Ave, Wilmore, Ky. 40390).  This offer goes out to the first twenty persons to buy the new novel,  Roman Numerals which you can now order at deep discount at www.wipfandstock.com.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SgcSbu4Mx4I\/AAAAAAAACRY\/VwOcSHXZNls\/s1600-h\/Witherington_RomanNumerals.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:center;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 267px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MCBNSn1DlAU\/SgcSbu4Mx4I\/AAAAAAAACRY\/VwOcSHXZNls\/s400\/Witherington_RomanNumerals.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will go on the honor system on this one, so if you tell me you ordered it, I will believe it \ud83d\ude42 Enjoy  BW3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this week my little book of sacred and mundane poems came out, thanks to the hard work of Leah Maines, and I have a deal for you long devoted readers! 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