{"id":7940,"date":"2004-02-14T09:51:26","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T09:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/passion_thoughts.html"},"modified":"2004-02-14T09:51:26","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T09:51:26","slug":"passion_thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/02\/passion_thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"Passion Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christusvictor.blogspot.com\/\">From Conor Dugan over at Christus Victor<\/a> He also includes an excerpt from the forward that Mel Gibson wrote to one of the books that&#8217;s been put out (by Tyndale, if I&#8217;m not mistaken) on the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Conor Dugan over at Christus Victor He also includes an excerpt from the forward that Mel Gibson wrote to one of the books that&#8217;s been put out (by Tyndale, if I&#8217;m not mistaken) on the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - 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