{"id":31351,"date":"2012-03-14T16:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_zahls_mockingbird-communicating_gods_message_through_pop_culture\/"},"modified":"2012-03-14T16:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T16:01:48","slug":"david_zahls_mockingbird-communicating_gods_message_through_pop_culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31351","title":{"rendered":"David Zahl&#39;s Mockingbird&#8211;Communicating God\u2019s message through pop culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Illuminating God\u2019s message of grace in popular culture, including in television shows like \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d\u009d and others like \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d\u009d and \u201cParenthood,\u201d\u009d is the cornerstone of Mockingbird, which strives to connect Christianity with everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>Through mbird.com, contributors, including Zahl, analyze film, music, television, literature, social science and humor, dissecting the contents through a Christian understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not trying to cover popular culture,\u201d\u009d said Zahl. \u201cBut we are trying to reach people through both conscious and unconscious parallels in good art.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/episcopaldigitalnetwork.com\/ens\/2012\/03\/13\/communicating-gods-message-through-pop-culture\">Read it all<\/a> and do go check out the website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illuminating God\u2019s message of grace in popular culture, including in television shows like \u201cDownton Abbey\u201d\u009d and others like \u201cFriday Night Lights\u201d\u009d and \u201cParenthood,\u201d\u009d is the cornerstone of Mockingbird, which strives to connect Christianity with everyday life. Through mbird.com, contributors, including<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31351\">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":[39,174,130,94,92,93,132,177,127,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-apologetics","category-art","category-blogging-the-internet","category-books","category-movies-television","category-music","category-pastoral-theology","category-theatredramaplays","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351","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=31351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}