{"id":718,"date":"2026-05-01T13:07:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/?p=718"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T13:07:25","slug":"20-minutes-ago-in-tennessee-patricia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/?p=718","title":{"rendered":"20 Minutes ago in Tennessee, Patricia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ntnews999.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/688058668_839578835859291_5519357689789483433_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/ntnews999.store\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/688058668_839578835859291_5519357689789483433_n-735x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Patricia Heaton stunned a packed crowd at<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>Belmont\u2019s Bell Tower\u2014and the entire Christian higher-ed world\u2014with one sentence:<\/p>\n<p>she\u2019s taking the chancellor\u2019s chair.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>The Emmy-winning Everybody Loves Raymond mom walked onstage in full academic regalia,<\/p>\n<p>cracked a joke about \u201cbossing around real students,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>then dropped a vision that could rewrite how Hollywood and faith collide. Her appointment isn\u2019t just another celebrity campus cameo;<\/p>\n<p>it\u2019s a gamble with national implications.<\/p>\n<p>Belmont is handing its future brand, its spiritual witness, and its artistic identity to a woman<\/p>\n<p>forged in sitcom writers\u2019 rooms and faith-based film sets. Admirers call it genius.<\/p>\n<p>Skeptics call it risky.<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Heaton\u2019s new role at Belmont signals more than a headline-making hire; it\u2019s a deliberate bet that stories can shape souls as powerfully as sermons.<\/p>\n<p>Her \u201cStorytelling with Purpose\u201d initiative promises to fuse craft and conviction, inviting students to chase excellence without amputating their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>For many young artists of faith, that combination has felt elusive, even impossible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patricia Heaton stunned a packed crowd at Belmont\u2019s Bell Tower\u2014and the entire Christian higher-ed world\u2014with one sentence: she\u2019s taking the chancellor\u2019s chair. The Emmy-winning Everybody Loves Raymond mom walked onstage &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":720,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnews168.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}