{"id":204,"date":"2005-12-21T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T02:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2005-12-21T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T02:59:00","slug":"a-free-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/a-free-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"A Free Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/global\/images\/his-88lewis-120x160.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/global\/images\/his-88lewis-120x160.gif\" \/><\/a>One of my favorite magazines that I don&#8217;t subscribe to is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/history\/\">Christian History &#038; Biography<\/a>.  I used to subscribe but somewhere along the way I thought that I didn&#8217;t have time to read each issue and I stopped.  That and foreign subscription fees are always about double.  Each issue is in fact like a mini-book, focused on a particular period of time or person.  But I received the latest issue of the magazine in the mail today and so I was reminded of it.  This issue is about C. S. Lewis, so if that&#8217;s an interest of yours, you might find the magazine a quicker read than a book about his life.<\/p>\n<p>The issue ends with an editorial on &#8220;Why read Christian biography?&#8221;, which is something I knew the answer to because of what he does, and not just that he tells us to (the &#8220;he&#8221; being John Piper, the &#8220;what&#8221; being his biographical sermons).   I received the magazine because they featured a nice photo of the Pool of Siloam in it, and even quoted some obscure website as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/poolofsiloam.htm\">predicting<\/a> that it would be &#8220;the archaeological discovery of the decade for biblical studies.&#8221;  One quibble: they repeat the Charlesworth quote that &#8220;we have found the Pool of Siloam&#8230;exactly where John said it was.&#8221;  Somebody please explain exactly where John said that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0849961912\/bibleplaces-20\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/lewis-754617.jpg\" \/><\/a> it was, and if not, please stop repeating this stupid quote.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, did you know that you can buy an audio book read by C. S. Lewis himself?  I bought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0849961912\/bibleplaces-20\">The<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0849961912\/bibleplaces-20\"> Four Loves<\/a> as a gift once (and I, of course, borrowed it :-)).  I don&#8217;t remember it as being stellar, but it&#8217;s something to hear a voice that you normally only see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite magazines that I don&#8217;t subscribe to is Christian History &#038; Biography. I used to subscribe but somewhere along the way I thought that I didn&#8217;t have time to read each issue and I stopped. That and foreign subscription fees are always about double. Each issue is in fact like a mini-book,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/a-free-magazine\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bibleplaces","category-things-i-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}