{"id":28128,"date":"2011-09-08T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christianity_today-how_evangelical_leaders_have_changed_since_9_11\/"},"modified":"2011-09-08T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:00:13","slug":"christianity_today-how_evangelical_leaders_have_changed_since_9_11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28128","title":{"rendered":"(Christianity Today) How Evangelical Leaders Have Changed Since 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is part of one answer from musician Matt Redmon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the first few days we spent in the United States [after returning from being overseas in England on 9\/11], it seemed that, in all the shock and vulnerability, many people were heading to church for comfort and clarity. I was so impressed by the preachers: every place we visited, we heard messages of hope and reminders of God&#8217;s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>But it left me wondering: What could we sing to God at a time like this? It was as if our worship songs were missing some important vocabulary\u201d\u201dthe language of tragedy and struggle, of the valley at the bottom of the mountain\u201d\u201dwhich I found surprising, as the Psalms are full of lament.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the tragedy, my wife and I wrote &#8220;Blessed Be Your Name.&#8221; It&#8217;s a simple worship offering about choosing to worship and trust God no matter what the season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2011\/september\/howleaderschanged.html\">Read them all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is part of one answer from musician Matt Redmon: During the first few days we spent in the United States [after returning from being overseas in England on 9\/11], it seemed that, in all the shock and vulnerability, many<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28128\">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":[48,39,40,42,419,133,183,154,177,108,148,165,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-history","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theodicy","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28128","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=28128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}