{"id":1886,"date":"2011-05-23T22:12:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/05\/23\/what-do-you-think-about-apostles-today\/"},"modified":"2011-05-23T22:12:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T06:12:07","slug":"what-do-you-think-about-apostles-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/05\/23\/what-do-you-think-about-apostles-today\/","title":{"rendered":"what do you think about apostles … today?"},"content":{"rendered":"
I grew up in Alberta, Canada, for any who might not know. Alberta is one of the wealthiest provinces in Canada due to huge oilfields. The oilfields were mainly discovered after World War II. Prior to that, Alberta was largely an agricultural economy subject to the ups and downs of world markets. And of course, the Great Depression was a huge downer.<\/p>\n
During those years, a radio preacher got interested in the theories of Social Credit<\/a>. He lobbied the government to adopt these policies, but when rebuffed formed the Social Credit party and became Premier of the province in 1935. He was Premier for eight years, but died suddenly, to be replaced by his right hand man.<\/p>\n