{"id":3078,"date":"2013-11-05T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"Do you have a soul mate? How does socio-economic class, culture, and religious belief affect the way you answer that question? Jeanene Reese's Spotlight asked you to choose: Do you believe God's will is a precise plan for your life, or is it more of a pat"},"modified":"2013-11-12T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T19:53:19","slug":"if-i-didnt-have-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/2013\/11\/05\/if-i-didnt-have-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;If I Didn&#8217;t Have You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a soul mate? How does socio-economic class, culture, and religious belief affect the way you answer that question? Jeanene Reese&#8217;s Spotlight asked you to choose: Do you believe God&#8217;s will is a precise plan for your life, or is it more of a path with multiple possibilities? How you answer that question is likely related to how you answered the first.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, Australian comedian Tim Minchin sings &#8220;If I Didn&#8217;t Have You,&#8221; a song that satirizes the whole notion of having a soul mate. Watch the video and reflect on the questions below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gaid72fqzNE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>How do you respond to Minchin&#8217;s song? Is he just unromantic? Is he an atheist who refuses to acknowledge that God does, in fact, have a person picked out for each one of us?<\/p>\n<p>Is he right? If so, what does that mean for our understanding of God&#8217;s will in our lives?<\/p>\n<p>(Oh, and what was your favorite line?)<\/p>\n<p>(NB: Special thanks to Cornerstone teacher Kayla Hewitt for finding and sharing this video.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a soul mate? How does socio-economic class, culture, and religious belief affect the way you answer that question? Jeanene Reese&#8217;s Spotlight asked you to choose: Do you believe God&#8217;s will is a precise plan for your life, or is it more of a path with multiple possibilities? How you answer that question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8023,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3T2tB-NE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}