{"id":661,"date":"2013-04-12T20:13:21","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2013-04-12T20:13:21","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T03:13:21","slug":"tab-sweep-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/tab-sweep-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tab Sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are categories of <a href=\"http:\/\/premium.docstoc.com\/article\/151946864\/INFOGRAPHIC-Survey-Reveals-Which-Demographics-Use-What-Social-Media\">people you will only reach using social media<\/a>, as this infographic depicts. (Data from <a href=\"http:\/\/pewinternet.org\/~\/media\/\/Files\/Reports\/2013\/PIP_SocialMediaUsers.pdf\">this Pew survey<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The Methodist Hymnal? <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/hymnal-methodist\/id406221328?mt=8\">There&#8217;s an app for that<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s news about an archaeological excavation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bibleplaces.com\/2013\/04\/secret-places-1st-century-synagogue-at.html\">1st century synagogue from Magdala<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis calls Catholics to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/03\/27\/pope-francis-calls-on-catholics-to-leave-their-comfort-zone\/\">leave their comfort zones<\/a>. That&#8217;s good advice. But if you&#8217;re a Protestant, and not sure, you can read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0801014158\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0801014158&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=accretiondisc-20\">Faith of Leap<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=accretiondisc-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0801014158\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em> by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost.<\/p>\n<p>New England is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstetzer.com\/2013\/03\/new-england-new-research-data.html\">least religious part of the country<\/a>. But Alaska&#8217;s right up there.<\/p>\n<p>The church has been defined (among other things) as &#8220;the provisional demonstration of the kingdom of God.&#8221; What that means is more or less the same thing as Ed Stetzer says here: we in the church are where the world comes to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstetzer.com\/2013\/03\/monday-is-for-missiology-window-shopping.html\">window shop the Christian religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle wants to know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/20\/why-do-economists-urge-college-but-not-marriage.html\">Why Do Economists Urge College, But Not Marriage?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you really love her more than that flat screen TV? <a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2013\/03\/20\/in-love-and-in-debt-young-couples-and-money\">Couples with big debts<\/a> have more difficulty in their relationship than couples without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are categories of people you will only reach using social media, as this infographic depicts. (Data from this Pew survey.) The Methodist Hymnal? There&#8217;s an app for that! Here&#8217;s news about an archaeological excavation of a 1st century synagogue from Magdala. Pope Francis calls Catholics to leave their comfort zones. That&#8217;s good advice. But &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/tab-sweep-2\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[423,547,545,541,542,341,548,544,546,543,540,549],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-college","tag-debt","tag-hymnal","tag-magdala","tag-marriage","tag-mcardle","tag-pope-francis","tag-relationships","tag-risk","tag-social-media","tag-stetzer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}