{"id":1602,"date":"2004-11-20T11:13:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-20T15:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/11\/20\/surprisingly\/"},"modified":"2004-11-20T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-20T15:13:42","slug":"surprisingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/11\/20\/surprisingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprisingly&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a770'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have found myself liking a fairly new journal of religion and society, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newpatangruel.com\">The New Pantagruel<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a self-described iconoclastic liberal.&nbsp; I find myself more<br \/>\ninterested, in the end, in intelligence than in the underlying politics<br \/>\nof what I read.&nbsp; It&#8217;s why I am not attracted to blogs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\">DailyKos<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212; I&#8217;ve met and talked with Kos, and he&#8217;s intelliegent, but the blog<br \/>\nputs service to partisan ends above intelligent discussion and<br \/>\nargument.&nbsp; I may want to check it every so often, but I can&#8217;t read<br \/>\nit with any regularity.&nbsp; And since there&#8217;s so much choice on the<br \/>\ninterweb-thingy, I spedn my reading energies elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Pantagruel has shown up fairly recently, in the last few months or<br \/>\nso.&nbsp; And I have to admit that any blog that gets endorsement from<br \/>\nChristianity Today would probably be something that I would normally<br \/>\nsteer clear of, as CT all too often puts service to ideology above<br \/>\nintelligent, questioning thought.&nbsp; (This is at least true in the<br \/>\nprint version of the CT mag.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/books\/\">Books and Culture<\/a>,<br \/>\nhowever, provides the exception to the general CT rule; there you&#8217;ll<br \/>\nfind intelligent argument, questioning of some received dogmas, and<br \/>\nsuch.&nbsp; Less fear, more thought.)<\/p>\n<p>Pantagruel offers intelligent thinking on religion and society.&nbsp;<br \/>\nIt purports to be sort of from the conservative side of the political<br \/>\nand religious playground, but my examination of it over the last few<br \/>\ndays indicates that thinking is more important than ideological<br \/>\nsubservience.&nbsp; It&#8217;s intelligent and questioning in the same way <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therevealer.org\">The Revealer<\/a><br \/>\nis.&nbsp; And the editors actually shy away from explicit statement of<br \/>\npolitical or religious creed, preferring to let the reader make his or<br \/>\nher own judgement.&nbsp; Refreshing out there in a journal of religion<br \/>\nand society.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newpantagruel.com\">So take a look<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have found myself liking a fairly new journal of religion and society, The New Pantagruel.&nbsp; I&#8217;m a self-described iconoclastic liberal.&nbsp; I find myself more interested, in the end, in intelligence than in the underlying politics of what I read.&nbsp; It&#8217;s why I am not attracted to blogs like DailyKos &#8212; I&#8217;ve met and talked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontheweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-pQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}