{"id":121,"date":"2017-05-02T07:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T11:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2018-09-19T09:37:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T13:37:06","slug":"38th-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"38- Ch 23; A Godless Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iframe%20style=border:%20none%20src=\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5318079\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/%20height=90%20width=640%20scrolling=no%20%20allowfullscreen%20webkitallowfullscreen%20mozallowfullscreen%20oallowfullscreen%20msallowfullscreen\/iframe\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/5318079\/height\/90\/width\/640\/theme\/custom\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/autoplay\/no\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"640\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">This installment covers Chapter 23 \u2013 <em><span style=\"font-family: Times;\">A Society Without God<\/span><\/em> followed by the beginning of Chapter 24 &#8211; <em><span style=\"font-family: Times;\">Hot Pursuit in a Cold War.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">Two experiences, one a personal story, the other an institutional story that took place in the Soviet Union as it grew in power and strength in the post war years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">The first is about a college graduate who finds himself in prison, almost as soon as he started work in his chosen profession. The second story is about the challenges for an entire religious denomination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">These events reveal how humanity had to &#8220;face off&#8221; with the growing power of the Soviet regime that was determined to break the spirit of those wanting the liberty to worship freely in their homelands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Constant Procession is a book, a personal memoir about the history of the Virgin Mary or the Madonna since she passed on.<\/p>\n<p>There are forty contiguous installments that run around 7 minutes in length each. They will be published every Tuesday morning beginning in August 2016 and read by me, Nikos Steves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=4\">To listen from the beginning<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I value feedback through the comments section or Better &#8211; via email at <a href=\"mailto:NikosSteves@gmail.com\">NikosSteves@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This installment covers Chapter 23 \u2013 A Society Without God followed by the beginning of Chapter 24 &#8211; Hot Pursuit in a Cold War. Two experiences, one a personal story, the other an institutional story that took place in the Soviet Union as it grew in power and strength in the post war years. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/?p=121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;38- Ch 23; A Godless Society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikossteves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}