{"id":74,"date":"2007-05-15T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/15\/jay-swartzendruber-on-bonos-christianity\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T13:20:14","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T17:20:14","slug":"jay-swartzendruber-on-bonos-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/jay-swartzendruber-on-bonos-christianity","title":{"rendered":"Jay Swartzendruber on Bono&#8217;s Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Jay about Bono, qualifying my admiration for Bono by noting that he is not as vocal about Jesus as I&#8217;d like him to be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Behind the scenes, one on one with people, (Bono) is incredibly vocal about Jesus. There&#8217;s a story about one of the Gallagher brothers from Oasis talking about how he spent three hours discussing God with Bono, and he said it was just a very intense conversation. Well, a couple of days later, Bono FedExed him a book &#8211; What&#8217;s So Amazing About Grace by Philip Yancey. It&#8217;s just like to me that Philip Yancey&#8217;s book is like Bono&#8217;s &#8220;tract&#8221; if you will. Behind the scenes, spending time with him, the man loves Jesus. He&#8217;d be the first to tell you he&#8217;s not a good advertisement for God, but the dude loves Jesus. If you go to one of the concerts, it&#8217;s right there; if you&#8217;re looking for it, it&#8217;s right there, singing a song called &#8220;Yahweh,&#8221; a modern worship song, and that&#8217;s one of many songs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Jay about Bono, qualifying my admiration for Bono by noting that he is not as vocal about Jesus as I&#8217;d like him to be: Behind the scenes, one on one with people, (Bono) is incredibly vocal about Jesus. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/jay-swartzendruber-on-bonos-christianity\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}