{"id":28168,"date":"2011-09-10T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fleming_rutledge_ruminates_on_churches_as_safe_places\/"},"modified":"2011-09-10T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T22:26:35","slug":"fleming_rutledge_ruminates_on_churches_as_safe_places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28168","title":{"rendered":"Fleming Rutledge Ruminates on Churches as \u201csafe places\u201d\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into the presence of the living God should bring us to our knees at the very least (although we seem to have stopped kneeling in church) as we reflect on Abraham Lincoln\u2019s words that \u201cthe judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.\u201d\u009d He also wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I<br \/>\nhad nowhere else to go\u201d\u00a6Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been<br \/>\na difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however\u201d\u00a6is to<br \/>\ndeny that there is a God governing the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When there is no conception of judgment, or justice, or \u201ca difference of purpose\u201d\u009d to define what is meant by the love of God, we are left in a helpless situation&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruminations.generousorthodoxy.org\/2011\/09\/churches-as-safe-places.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming into the presence of the living God should bring us to our knees at the very least (although we seem to have stopped kneeling in church) as we reflect on Abraham Lincoln\u2019s words that \u201cthe judgments of the Lord<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28168\">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":[36,48,66,435,184,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28168","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=28168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}