{"id":3813,"date":"2013-05-21T05:31:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T09:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:05:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:05:05","slug":"holy-war-three-teams-battle-it-out-for-good-causes-on-the-season-2-finale-of-the-american-bible-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2013\/05\/holy-war-three-teams-battle-it-out-for-good-causes-on-the-season-2-finale-of-the-american-bible-challenge.html","title":{"rendered":"Holy war: Three teams battle it out (for good causes) on the Season 2 finale of &#8220;The American Bible Challenge&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"yiv1552195496Picture_x0020_1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/us.mg5.mail.yahoo.com\/ya\/download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f1%5f15897232%5fAExWimIAAWOTUZrA4geULB7RlOM&amp;pid=4&amp;fid=Inbox&amp;inline=1&amp;appid=YahooMailNeo\" width=\"314\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>They&#8217;ve got game.<\/strong> This Thursday (May 23<sup>rd)<\/sup> at 9pm (ET), the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist will square off against the Wagner Warriors and the Girls of Grace face off in a final competition on the season finale of\u00a0 GSN&#8217;s <em>American Bible Challenge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nO7KdxAVMSg\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nO7KdxAVMSg<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OwmwyjPMbmk\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OwmwyjPMbmk<\/a>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OGZf333jHuc\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OGZf333jHuc<\/a>\n<p>What you gotta admire about these contestants is that the teams are playing for help others and not to enrich themselves. The show&#8217;s a lot of fun too.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday&#8217;s season finale, BTW, will also feature a performance by the Grammy Award-winning Mary Mary, singing their chart-topping hit Go Get It alongside the show&#8217;s musical co-host Kirk Franklin.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. They&#8217;ve got game. This Thursday (May 23rd) at 9pm (ET), the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist will square off against the Wagner Warriors and the Girls of Grace face off in a final competition on the season finale of\u00a0 GSN&#8217;s American&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9,13,1591,17,31],"tags":[4770,4773,4771,2856,4774,4142,4772,4768,4769],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-catholic-church","category-christianity","category-family-matters","category-good-works","category-interfaith-dialogue","category-television","tag-girls-of-grace","tag-grammy-award-winning-mary-mary","tag-gsns-american-bible-challenge","tag-jeff-foxworthy","tag-kirk-franklin","tag-mother-of-the-eucharist","tag-sister-evangeline-of-the-sisters-of-mary","tag-sisters-of-mary","tag-wagner-warriors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holy war: Three teams battle it out (for good causes) on the Season 2 finale of &quot;The American Bible Challenge&quot;<\/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\/faithmediaandculture\/2013\/05\/holy-war-three-teams-battle-it-out-for-good-causes-on-the-season-2-finale-of-the-american-bible-challenge.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holy war: Three teams battle it out (for good causes) on the Season 2 finale of &quot;The American Bible Challenge&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. 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