{"id":30781,"date":"2020-10-05T09:54:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30781"},"modified":"2020-10-05T09:54:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:54:57","slug":"reading-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/05\/reading-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Locally, in fact just up the road from our place, we have a Bible college named Bethel University<\/strong><\/em>. My Arts Editor informs me that Bethel<\/em>, or Beth-El<\/em>, means Of God<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So what am I supposed to make of this California based school, named … wait for it … Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (BSSM<\/strong><\/em>)?<\/p>\n

Is this, like, where you go to learn how to minister to … the supernatural? Evangelize the ghosts? How to negotiate those prickly conversations with Shiva about the Christian God?<\/p>\n

I just boggle at the thought of missionaries heading out for wherever angels<\/strong> live.<\/p>\n

And it really makes you wonder about this scene from Lord Of The Rings<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2001):<\/p>\n

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I didn’t realize Gandalf was a graduate of BSSM<\/strong>! But my Arts Editor says Gandalf was a poor student and only earned an Associate’s Degree. That might explain the negative outcome.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

I sure hope breakfast will be ready soon. I suspect a lot of folks have had a good laugh over that name.<\/p>\n

Aaaaand … it’s a Covid-19<\/strong> hot spot<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Locally, in fact just up the road from our place, we have a Bible college named Bethel University. My Arts Editor informs me that Bethel, or Beth-El, means Of God. So what am I supposed to make of this California based school, named … wait for it … Bethel School \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30783,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30781\/revisions\/30783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}