{"id":27313,"date":"2011-07-18T03:34:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T03:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-religious_leaders_and_the_budget_debate\/"},"modified":"2011-07-18T03:34:50","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T03:34:50","slug":"religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-religious_leaders_and_the_budget_debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27313","title":{"rendered":"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;Religious Leaders and the Budget Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[BOB] ABERNETHY: But the common good. This idea of the common good, very important in religious and ethics. How do you define it? And who says what the common good is?<\/p>\n<p>[JIM] WALLIS: Well, this week we\u2019ve organized 5,000 pastors to say let\u2019s look at the real people in our congregations and our communities, what\u2019s going to happen to them as opposed to the Washington, D.C. question, who\u2019s up who\u2019s down, who\u2019s going to be the Speaker of the House next time, who\u2019ll win the next election. The common good is about the real people, the people we have to always take into account. And pastors, I think, I wanted to talk to people whose job it is to have re-read the Bible. To get to, to focus on who the real people are here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/july-15-2011\/religious-leaders-and-the-budget-debate\/9148\">Read or watch it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[BOB] ABERNETHY: But the common good. This idea of the common good, very important in religious and ethics. How do you define it? And who says what the common good is? [JIM] WALLIS: Well, this week we\u2019ve organized 5,000 pastors<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27313\">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":[39,40,670,582,589,595,592,149,591,590,119,675,108,673,587,585,669,584,672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-budget","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-credit-markets","category-currency-markets","category-economy","category-euro","category-european-central-bank","category-globalization","category-medicare","category-religion-culture","category-social-security","category-taxes","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government","category-the-united-states-currency-dollar-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313","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=27313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}