{"id":5384,"date":"2020-11-03T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:46:19","slug":"liberty-university-deletes-john-piper-convocation-videos-after-trump-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University deletes John Piper convocation videos after Trump criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University removed videos of evangelical author and speaker John Piper from its website after the well-known pastor wrote a blog post that was seen as critical of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>According to Christianity Today, Piper and Southern Baptist Convention President J.D. Greear recorded a video conversation with David Nasser, Liberty&rsquo;s senior vice president for spiritual development, in mid-October. The two resulting videos were posted online about a week later. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What a terrible and weak decision by Liberty. Meanwhile a recent Ted Cruz convocation remains up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MI0kvsfkKh\">https:\/\/t.co\/MI0kvsfkKh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David French (@DavidAFrench) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAFrench\/status\/1323664789583896576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnPiper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JohnPiper<\/a> told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LibertyU<\/a> students in a video that they should focus their lives on Jesus. Then he criticized <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a>&#39;s sins and the video was erased. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Rt82WNE8V\">https:\/\/t.co\/9Rt82WNE8V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RNS (@RNS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNS\/status\/1323693928525238272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNmRZCWsb4o\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/11\/03\/john-piper-jd-greear-convocation-video-booted-by-liberty-university-after-trump-criticism-southern-baptist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University removed videos of evangelical author and speaker John Piper from its website after the well-known pastor wrote a blog pos&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=5384\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University deletes John Piper convocation videos after Trump criticism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-university-deletes-john-piper-convocation-videos-after-trump-criticism","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1oQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5385,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/5385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}