{"id":41261,"date":"2013-11-27T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ny_times_beliefs_an_ex-mouseketeers_journey_back_to_christianity_from_pagan\/"},"modified":"2013-11-27T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:40:06","slug":"ny_times_beliefs_an_ex-mouseketeers_journey_back_to_christianity_from_pagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41261","title":{"rendered":"(NY Times Beliefs) An Ex-Mouseketeer\u2019s Journey Back to Christianity From Paganism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Teo Bishop, while keeping up a career in pop music, accomplished something less predictable and altogether curiouser. Beginning about three years ago, he began a rise to prominence in the Pagan community. Then, last month, he shocked the Pagan community by re-embracing Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m overwhelmed with thoughts of Jesus,\u201d\u009d Mr. Bishop wrote on Oct. 13, on his blog, Bishop in the Grove. \u201cJesus and God and Christianity and the Lord\u2019s Prayer and compassion and forgiveness and hope. &#8230; I don\u2019t know what to do with all of this.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For American Pagans, Mr. Bishop\u2019s defecting to a big, bad mainstream religion is bigger news than winning a Grammy, bigger than shooting a Vanity Fair cover. If you\u2019re a Druid, a Wiccan or any of the nature-religion followers grouped under the label Pagan, you\u2019re not talking about Britney, JT or Xtina. You\u2019re talking Teo Bishop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/23\/us\/an-ex-mouseketeers-journey-back-to-christianity-from-paganism.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Teo Bishop, while keeping up a career in pop music, accomplished something less predictable and altogether curiouser. Beginning about three years ago, he began a rise to prominence in the Pagan community. Then, last month, he shocked the Pagan community<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41261\">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":[48,39,42,440,93,154,155,184,108,427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-movies-television","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-wicca-paganism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261","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=41261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}