{"id":29270,"date":"2011-11-11T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_houses_of_worship_richard_stearns-evangelicals_and_the_case_for_foreig\/"},"modified":"2011-11-11T22:04:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T22:04:51","slug":"wsj_houses_of_worship_richard_stearns-evangelicals_and_the_case_for_foreig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29270","title":{"rendered":"(WSJ Houses of Worship) Richard Stearns&#8211;Evangelicals and the Case for Foreign Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One objection that I often hear from evangelicals is that while aid is good, it is not the government&#8217;s job. Yes, individuals and churches play a vital role in aid and development. But governments play a unique and vital role that private organizations cannot. The poverty-focused programs in the foreign-aid budget are facing cuts of between $1.2 billion and $3.2 billion from 2010 levels. In comparison, the largest American Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, has a budget of $308 million for its missionary and aid organization.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot let others suffer simply because times are tough in the U.S. All Americans must understand the urgency of the human need and the effectiveness of our government&#8217;s aid programs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204190704577026391811161000.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One objection that I often hear from evangelicals is that while aid is good, it is not the government&#8217;s job. Yes, individuals and churches play a vital role in aid and development. But governments play a unique and vital role<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29270\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,670,149,419,144,154,151,108,669,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-budget","category-economy","category-evangelicals","category-foreign-relations","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-the-national-deficit","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29270","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=29270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}