{"id":45383,"date":"2014-07-30T16:15:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faithstreet_bob_smietana-you_might_want_to_fact-check_your_pastors_sermon\/"},"modified":"2014-07-30T16:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:15:24","slug":"faithstreet_bob_smietana-you_might_want_to_fact-check_your_pastors_sermon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45383","title":{"rendered":"(Faithstreet) Bob Smietana&#8211;You Might Want to Fact-Check Your Pastor\u2019s Sermon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[This illustration I heard is a&#8230;] great story about the power of a good deed. There\u2019s just one problem: Almost nothing about this story is true. It\u2019s one of the most popular myths about Churchill, according Snopes.com and the Downers Grove, Illinois-based Churchill Centre.<\/p>\n<p>How do I know this?<\/p>\n<p>During the sermon, I stopped listening to the pastor and instead turned my eyes on my cell phone. Something about the story just didn\u2019t sit right \u201d\u201d it was too good to be true. So whatever spiritual lesson I was supposed to learn in the sermon was soon overshadowed by the wisdom of a Google search.<\/p>\n<p>Things get even worse when a pastor starts quoting statistics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithstreet.com\/onfaith\/2014\/07\/25\/you-might-want-to-fact-check-your-pastors-sermon\/33257\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This illustration I heard is a&#8230;] great story about the power of a good deed. There\u2019s just one problem: Almost nothing about this story is true. It\u2019s one of the most popular myths about Churchill, according Snopes.com and the Downers<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45383\">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":[48,39,50,433,209,94,133,435,184,439,108,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-americau-s-a","category-blogging-the-internet","category-history","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45383","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=45383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}