{"id":28447,"date":"2011-09-26T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page-_politics_from_the_pulpit_a_good_idea_or_a_bad_mix\/"},"modified":"2011-09-26T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T17:09:30","slug":"local_paper_front_page-_politics_from_the_pulpit_a_good_idea_or_a_bad_mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28447","title":{"rendered":"Local Paper front page&#8211; Politics from the Pulpit: A good idea or a bad mix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where to draw the line?<\/p>\n<p>It probably wasn&#8217;t illegal, but some concerned churchgoers and pastors are questioning the wisdom of U.S. Rep. Tim Scott&#8217;s recent sermon at Seacoast Church during which he criticized national economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>In the 40-minute sermon, devoted to faith, life and politics in roughly equal measure, the Charleston Republican took aim at the federal government&#8217;s deficit spending, comparing it to a personal household budget that relies on &#8220;a credit card drawer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message contained no explicit reference to individual policy makers or political parties in Washington, but advanced a perspective often heard from Republicans and right-leaning pundits &#8212; that government spending is out of control.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/25\/politics-pulpita-good-idea-or-a-bad-mix\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where to draw the line? It probably wasn&#8217;t illegal, but some concerned churchgoers and pastors are questioning the wisdom of U.S. Rep. Tim Scott&#8217;s recent sermon at Seacoast Church during which he criticized national economic policy. In the 40-minute sermon,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28447\">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":[48,39,40,42,54,419,616,154,184,151,439,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-evangelicals","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-politics-in-general","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447","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=28447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}