{"id":82,"date":"2006-01-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/christ-is-my-bounty-hunter.html"},"modified":"2006-01-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-10T12:00:00","slug":"christ-is-my-bounty-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/christ-is-my-bounty-hunter.html","title":{"rendered":"Christ Is My Bounty Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/images.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/Dog_theBountyHunter.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/> Although it may surprise a lot of people, I find the new face of religion on TV in the form of the \u201cDog: The Bounty Hunter\u201d (Tuesdays at 9), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aetv.com\/\" target=\"_new\">A &amp; E\u2019s<\/a> highest-rated series ever.<\/p>\n<p>The show, which gives us a look into the often-misunderstood world of bail bonding, focuses on Duane \u201cDog\u201d Chapman and his family of bounty hunters, including wife Beth, two of his 12 children, Leland and Duane Lee, and friend Tim Chapman (no relation). A former sergeant-at-arms in a motorcycle gang called \u201cDevil\u2019s Disciples,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dogthebountyhunter.com\/main.php\" target=\"_new\">Dog explains<\/a> on his website how he got his cool nickname:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe [had] a guy in the gang who\u2019s always mad at God. He\u2019s always flipping God off. So I started praying for him. Since we already have a \u2018Preacher\u2019 and a \u2018John the Baptist\u2019 in the gang, I became known as Dog\u2014God backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although he went to prison for two years for the murder of a drug dealer he insists he didn\u2019t commit, Dog has left his gang life behind and is now a born-again Christian, motivational speaker, and the self-proclaimed, \u201cGreatest Bounty Hunter in the World,\u201d with over 6,000 captures under his belt during his 27-year career. Dog and his family pray every time they go out on a bounty hunt to track down someone who has skipped bail. He knows his job is dangerous, but he trusts that God will keep him safe so he can come back home to his children.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the show, Dog utters little bits of advice or wisdom, which he calls \u201cDogisms.\u201d One of my favorites is, \u201cI like to hear that God goes before us, because he is the biggest bullet proof vest of all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;padding-bottom:0.25em\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it may surprise a lot of people, I find the new face of religion on TV in the form of the \u201cDog: The Bounty Hunter\u201d (Tuesdays at 9), A &amp; E\u2019s highest-rated series ever. The show, which gives us a look into the often-misunderstood world of bail bonding, focuses on Duane \u201cDog\u201d Chapman and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","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>Christ Is My Bounty Hunter<\/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\/idolchatter\/2006\/01\/christ-is-my-bounty-hunter.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christ Is My Bounty Hunter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Although it may surprise a lot of people, I find the new face of religion on TV in the form of the \u201cDog: The Bounty Hunter\u201d (Tuesdays at 9), A &amp; E\u2019s highest-rated series ever. 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