{"id":24226,"date":"2011-01-27T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_some_south_sudanese_believe_bible_backs_vote_for_independence\/"},"modified":"2011-01-27T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T17:01:01","slug":"ap_some_south_sudanese_believe_bible_backs_vote_for_independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24226","title":{"rendered":"AP: Some South Sudanese believe Bible backs vote for Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The interpretation is not so far-fetched, said Ellen Davis, a professor at Duke Divinity School who has been working with the Episcopal Church of Sudan to strengthen theological education there since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that Isaiah 18 really is speaking about the people of the upper Nile,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It really is speaking about the Sudanese people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis said the belief in the prophecy is nearly universal among the Christians she has met in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2011\/01\/26\/946247\/some-south-sudanese-believe-independence.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interpretation is not so far-fetched, said Ellen Davis, a professor at Duke Divinity School who has been working with the Episcopal Church of Sudan to strengthen theological education there since 2004. &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt that Isaiah 18 really is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24226\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,202,151,108,346,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-sudan","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}