{"id":12335,"date":"2009-04-17T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/northern_michigan_bishop_elects_continually_evolving_faith_studied\/"},"modified":"2009-04-17T19:45:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T19:45:10","slug":"northern_michigan_bishop_elects_continually_evolving_faith_studied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"Northern Michigan Bishop-elect\u2019s \u201d\u02dccontinually evolving\u2019 faith studied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a story published Friday, the Democrat-Gazette interviews the Buddhist abbot who helped Thew Forrester take his Buddhist vows. The story also contains interviews with bishops supporting and opposing Thew Forrester and an interview with the bishop-elect.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, Thew Forrester said he believes in evil, but not a literal Satan. He also rejects the idea that Jesus came to earth to die for the sins of the world:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod did not send Jesus here to be killed or be crucified by the Romans, which is a brutal murder. But Jesus has become incarnate to reveal to us who God is. He\u2019s a God of love and forgiveness and mercy. \u201d\u00a6 Jesus\u2019 death itself was not the will of God. God did not desire Jesus to be killed,\u201d\u009d Thew Forrester said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biblebeltblogger.com\/index.php\/religion\/bishop-elects-continually-evolving-faith-studied\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story published Friday, the Democrat-Gazette interviews the Buddhist abbot who helped Thew Forrester take his Buddhist vows. The story also contains interviews with bishops supporting and opposing Thew Forrester and an interview with the bishop-elect. Among other things,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12335\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,376,640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-northern-michigan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}