{"id":46,"date":"2009-10-02T17:06:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/who-started-the-fire.html"},"modified":"2009-10-02T17:06:21","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:06:21","slug":"who-started-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/who-started-the-fire.html","title":{"rendered":"Who started the fire?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Turns out, Billy Joel didn’t tell the whole story.  The fire actually began on Pentecost. <\/span><\/div>\n

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So: check out this interp of a classic, courtesy the indispensable New Advent<\/a> and New Zealand’s Liturgy<\/a> blog.  <\/span><\/div>\n

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For those deacon candidates studying Church History, this is a priceless primer.  For the rest of us, it’s just a lot fun… <\/span><\/div>\n

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Turns out, Billy Joel didn’t tell the whole story.  The fire actually began on Pentecost.  So: check out this interp of a classic, courtesy the indispensable New Advent and New Zealand’s Liturgy blog.   For those deacon candidates studying Church History, this is a priceless primer.  For the rest of us, it’s just a lot…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-this-that"],"yoast_head":"\nWho started the fire? - The Deacon's Bench<\/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\/deaconsbench\/2009\/10\/who-started-the-fire.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Who started the fire? 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