{"id":25336,"date":"2011-03-28T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_pastors_book_on_hell_sparks_eternal_debate\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:02:42","slug":"ap_pastors_book_on_hell_sparks_eternal_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25336","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Pastor&#39;s book on Hell sparks eternal debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job.<\/p>\n<p>The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and critic of the traditional view of hell as a place of eternal torment for billions of damned souls.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, Holtz was told complaints from church members prompted his dismissal from Marrow&#8217;s Chapel in Henderson.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/2011\/03\/24\/1077710\/whos-in-hell-pastors-book-sparks.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Chad Holtz lost his old belief in hell, he also lost his job. The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25336\">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":[48,39,42,178,419,360,154,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-eschatology","category-evangelicals","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336","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=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}