{"id":134457,"date":"2017-08-27T13:35:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T19:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134457"},"modified":"2017-08-27T15:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T21:10:26","slug":"mired-kingdom-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/27\/mired-kingdom-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Mired in the Kingdom of This World"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a fascinating interview with Terry Heaton, a TV producer who in the 80s and 90s helped get Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network off the ground, building up the 700 Club<\/i> and all that jazz to become media empires … and deeply entangled with Republican politics. Today, he regrets it.<\/p>\n

What’s interesting to me is that this is not a “Guy was in evangelical circles, guy got disillusioned, guy quits God, guy writes a book.” Its partly that (he is, in fact, flogging his new book on the subject), but Heaton hasn’t lost his faith. Instead, he thinks his experience helped him in his belief, by pointing out how easy it is to go from good intentions to less-than-good actions, and to let temporal considerations begin to hold sway over considerations of faith.<\/p>\n

Along the way, he talks about Pat Robertson, both his admiration for the man, and where Robertson became a victim of his own success and the need for more.<\/p>\n


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\nFormer 700 Club producer: “I knew where the line was. But that didn\u2019t stop us.”<\/a><\/span>
\nPat Robertson’s former producer Terry Heaton talks The 700 Club, Trump, and turning the Bible “into a self-help manual.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is a fascinating interview with Terry Heaton, a TV producer who in the 80s and 90s helped get Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network off the ground, building up the 700 Club and all that jazz to become media empires … and deeply entangled with Republican politics. Today, he regrets it. What’s interesting to me … Continue reading “Mired in the Kingdom of This World”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,28,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-media-moguls","category-religious-zanies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/pat-robertson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7737,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/i_guess_pat_rob.html","url_meta":{"origin":134457,"position":0},"title":"I guess Pat Robertson is a nice guy after all","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Aug-05 3:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Pat Robertson insists that he was misquoted when he called on the US to go ahead and assassinate Hugo Chavez. 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