{"id":509,"date":"2007-12-06T20:05:35","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/06\/minnesota-has-its-quirks\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T20:05:35","slug":"minnesota-has-its-quirks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/minnesota-has-its-quirks\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota has its quirks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And some are very very annoying.  We had crazy Christians running around last year putting up anti-Evolution billboards.  Now, this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Running right through the heart of the Twin Cities is a spiritual road that dozens of evangelical churches say is specifically mentioned in the Bible as the &#8220;Way of Holiness.&#8221; They call it the &#8220;Highway of Holiness.&#8221; Others call it Interstate 35.<\/p>\n<p>Evangelicals throughout the Midwest&#8230; have been praying at 24-hour prayer rooms for a month for Interstate 35 in order to &#8220;light the highway.&#8221; Young people in the movement have been holding &#8220;purity sieges&#8221; in front of LGBT businesses, abortion clinics and stores that sell pornography. So far, Minnesota has been spared of &#8220;purity sieges,&#8221; but 24-hour prayer rooms have been set up in Minneapolis, Albert Lea and Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>The scriptural basis for the new movement comes from Isaiah 35:8, which reads, &#8220;And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not journey on it; it will be for those who walk in that Way; wicked fools will not go about on it.&#8221; Because of chapter 35, believers say the highway mentioned must be Interstate 35. In addition, a number of people in the &#8220;Highway of Holiness&#8221; movement claim to have had prophetic experiences that involve Interstate 35.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.  Read all about it <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotamonitor.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=2817\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And some are very very annoying. We had crazy Christians running around last year putting up anti-Evolution billboards. Now, this: Running right through the heart of the Twin Cities is a spiritual road that dozens of evangelical churches say is specifically mentioned in the Bible as the &#8220;Way of Holiness.&#8221; They call it the &#8220;Highway &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/06\/minnesota-has-its-quirks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minnesota has its quirks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8d","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}