{"id":754,"date":"2012-10-08T16:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T21:13:49","slug":"book-rumors-of-another-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-rumors-of-another-world\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Rumors of Another World: What in the World Are We Missing? by Philip Yancey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his introduction, \u201cA Note from the Author,\u201d Philip Yancey explains that he wrote <em>Rumors<\/em> for those who live in the borderlands of belief, between belief and unbelief in God, the supernatural, and an invisible other world.<\/p>\n<p>Yancey explores ordinary elements of the visible world\u2014the beauty and force of nature, the complexities and order found in all living things, animal instincts, acts of wrongdoing and the pursuant sense of guilt which all cultures exhibit, and many examples of supernatural love. All bear witness to another, perfect, unseen world.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best chapters explains how human sexuality points us to God.\u00a0 Yancey examines the sacramental meaning of marriage and how believers can \u201challow\u201d and celebrate their sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>In the final section, \u201cTwo Worlds,\u201d we learn how our beliefs about the invisible world affect our earthly behaviors in dealing with such universal experiences as money, hardships, death, and moral failures.\u00a0 Equally profound are the ways in which what we do in this world affects what happens in other unseen world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his introduction, \u201cA Note from the Author,\u201d Philip Yancey explains that he wrote Rumors for those who live in the borderlands of belief, between belief and unbelief in God, the supernatural, and an invisible other world. Yancey explores ordinary elements of the visible world\u2014the beauty and force of nature, the complexities and order found [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-rumors-of-another-world\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}