{"id":5958,"date":"2015-03-08T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-08T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=5958"},"modified":"2015-03-15T06:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T10:39:55","slug":"cnn-goes-in-search-of-the-bones-of-john-the-baptist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/03\/cnn-goes-in-search-of-the-bones-of-john-the-baptist.html","title":{"rendered":"CNN goes in search of &#8220;The Bones of John the Baptist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A1pz4j9rLVw<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact and Forgery<\/em> (Episode 2) &#8211; <em>The Bones of John the Baptist<\/em> air tonight (3\/8) on CNN @ 9:00 PM (ET)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425777190902_18199\"><strong>Mini-Review:<\/strong> Seems to me to be a bit sparser on the science side than last week&#8217;s premiere which looked at investigations into the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin. While that side of the documentary seems somewhat padded, the recreations of John the Baptist&#8217;s life, particularly regarding his relationship to Jesus, are quite interesting. True, it plays more like an episode of the late Leonard Nimoy&#8217;s old <em>In Search of&#8230;<\/em> show than anything you&#8217;d traditionally expect to see on CNN but then they are shaking things up over there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425777190902_18199\"><em>The Bones of John the Baptist<\/em> presents John as a man of deep faith, humility and courage. He was a man who wasn&#8217;t afraid to speak truth to power. His fearlessness in the face of the political correctness of his time is inspirational in ours.\u00a0 <strong>Episode 2 of <em>Finding Jesus<\/em> is Highly Recommended.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1425777190902_18199\"><\/span><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A1pz4j9rLVw Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact and Forgery (Episode 2) &#8211; The Bones of John the Baptist air tonight (3\/8) on CNN @ 9:00 PM (ET) Mini-Review: Seems to me to be a bit sparser on the science side than last week&#8217;s premiere which looked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7192,15,20,26,1031,31,1],"tags":[35,757,8013,8012,8035,8036,8014,8037],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-freedom","category-history","category-journalism","category-politics","category-science","category-television","category-uncategorized","tag-1-thessalonians-511","tag-cnn","tag-fact-and-forgery","tag-finding-jesus-faith","tag-in-search-of","tag-leonard-nimoy","tag-shroud-of-turin","tag-the-bones-of-john-the-baptist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>CNN goes in search of &quot;The Bones of John the Baptist&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\/2015\/03\/cnn-goes-in-search-of-the-bones-of-john-the-baptist.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"CNN goes in search of &quot;The Bones of John the Baptist&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s today\u2019s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A1pz4j9rLVw Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact and Forgery (Episode 2) &#8211; The Bones of John the Baptist air tonight (3\/8) on CNN @ 9:00 PM (ET) Mini-Review: Seems to me to be a bit sparser on the science side than last week&#8217;s premiere which looked&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2015\/03\/cnn-goes-in-search-of-the-bones-of-john-the-baptist.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Faith, Media &amp; Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-03-08T11:26:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-03-15T10:39:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"John W. 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