{"id":2483,"date":"2009-10-22T12:20:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2483"},"modified":"2009-10-22T12:20:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:20:13","slug":"christians-and-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2483","title":{"rendered":"Christians and Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2009\/10\/becoming-such-as-paul-was\/\">very interesting comment thread<\/a> going on over at First Things &quot;Evangel&quot; blog (a new group blog that our own Mark Olsen is contributing to) dealing with how Christians deal with the political realm.&#160; Clearly I&#8217;m for engaging the world (in the world but not of it, as it were), but the writer Frank Turk, taking cues from the apostle Paul, is of a different opinion.&#160; Other commenters have weighed in, in a very thought-provoking back-and-forth.&#160; Additionally, another blogger, Matthew Anderson, has <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/2009\/10\/toward-a-pauline-understanding-of-the-political-order\/\">taken up the opposite side of the issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to take a look at these, regardless of your position.&#160; And the <a href=\"http:\/\/firstthings.com\/blogs\/evangel\/\">&quot;Evangel&quot;<\/a> comes highly recommended.&#160; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a very interesting comment thread going on over at First Things &quot;Evangel&quot; blog (a new group blog that our own Mark Olsen is contributing to) dealing with how Christians deal with the political realm.&#160; Clearly I&#8217;m for engaging the world (in the world but not of it, as it were), but the writer Frank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,26,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-politics","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}