{"id":48,"date":"2008-11-19T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T02:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/axxess.org\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:51:05","slug":"pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterrollins.net\/\">Pete Rollins<\/a> was in town over the weekend and I had a chance to hang out with him at Peyton and Lauren&#8217;s house on Saturday. It probably goes without saying &#8211; I am a big fan. You just don&#8217;t meet a lot of folks who can reference Wittgenstein, Descartes, Caputo, Westphall and Rorty in response to a question about spiritual formation.\u00c2\u00a0This is a shame &#8211; I think Christianity has lost it&#8217;s intellectual base. Anyway &#8211; I find his take on God very encouraging and humble. I wish there were more philosophers\/theologians like him.<\/p>\n<p>The big surprise to me is that he talks very fast. I guess it is not unusual for an Irish man\u00c2\u00a0to talk fast, but it is hard to absorb a lot of the ideas in one sitting. The good news (for me) I got to hear him twice (once at Peyton and Lauren&#8217;s and the other at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journeydallas.com\/\">Journey<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>Some Advice &#8211; if you get a chance to spend some time with Pete &#8211; find out where his next stop is!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Pete for what you are doing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Rollins was in town over the weekend and I had a chance to hang out with him at Peyton and Lauren&#8217;s house on Saturday. It probably goes without saying &#8211; I am a big fan. You just don&#8217;t meet a lot of folks who can reference Wittgenstein, Descartes, Caputo, Westphall and Rorty in response &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pete&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-emergent","category-theology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axxess.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}