{"id":15367,"date":"2025-12-15T02:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/press.pbts.edu.ph\/?p=15367"},"modified":"2026-01-06T02:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:37:50","slug":"our-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/press.pbts.edu.ph\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/our-first-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Book!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>January 2026 we will be releasing our first book at PBTS Press. It is &#8220;Drinking Coffee with Some Contemporary Filipino Evangelical Theologians.&#8221; It is written by PBTS faculty member, Dr. Francis Jr. S. Samdao. 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