{"id":860,"date":"2010-07-01T07:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/christopher-hitchens-has-cancer.html"},"modified":"2010-07-01T07:15:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T07:15:15","slug":"christopher-hitchens-has-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/07\/christopher-hitchens-has-cancer.html","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Hitchens has cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chuck Bloom passes on the sad news:<\/a><\/p>\n

Christopher Hitchens is being treated for cancer, forcing the D.C. writer to cut short his latest book tour. In a statement released through his publisher Twelve, the British-born provocateur, 61, said that he has “been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I hope you will join me in praying for his healing, body and soul. Somehow, I doubt the author of “God Is Not Great” would object; cancer has a way of humbling one in this regard. Anyway, he suffers, and has more to suffer, and needs us to stand with him in whatever way we can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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