{"id":1960,"date":"2007-03-08T02:20:18","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T02:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/tony-admits-he-loses-the-debat.html"},"modified":"2007-03-08T02:20:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T02:20:18","slug":"tony-admits-he-loses-the-debat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/03\/tony-admits-he-loses-the-debat.html","title":{"rendered":"Tony admits he loses the debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following our knock-down, drag-out event at Greensboro, with Tony Jones telling stories and yours truly pushing the message of Jesus through the &#8220;Lukan thread,&#8221; Tony and I gathered together for a brief respite and you can see, because he&#8217;s checking out my pleated and cuffed trousers and Born shoes and colored T-shirt, that he&#8217;s in for some big changes. He&#8217;s here admitting he&#8217;s got more training to do and I&#8217;m, of course, holding out a peace offering. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/greensboroabbey.squarespace.com\/scot-mcknight-tony-jones\/\">the interview<\/a> I did with him, too. <!--more|inline--><br \/>\nJust in case you don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about, this is all in fun. ( 8) )<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/100_0653.JPG\" title=\"100_0653.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/03\/100_0653.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"100_0653.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKris took this picture of Anthony Smith and me while we were in Greensboro. I met Anthony last year, and I can&#8217;t wait to see him again: he&#8217;s full of ideas and not afraid to speak his mind with incisiveness. And he&#8217;s got a great set of shoulders.<br \/>\n<a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/100_0655.JPG\" title=\"100_0655.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/2007\/03\/100_0655.thumbnail.JPG\" alt=\"100_0655.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following our knock-down, drag-out event at Greensboro, with Tony Jones telling stories and yours truly pushing the message of Jesus through the &#8220;Lukan thread,&#8221; Tony and I gathered together for a brief respite and you can see, because he&#8217;s checking out my pleated and cuffed trousers and Born shoes and colored T-shirt, that he&#8217;s in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-movement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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