{"id":34600,"date":"2012-09-16T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faith_and_values_section-should_wives_obey_comments_spur_debate_over_chris\/"},"modified":"2012-09-16T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T15:00:03","slug":"faith_and_values_section-should_wives_obey_comments_spur_debate_over_chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34600","title":{"rendered":"Local paper&#8211;Should wives obey? Comments spur debate over Christian Women&#39;s roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would Jesus advise if call-in Christian talk shows were around in his day? Say a viewer wrote in, distraught that his wife did not respect him as the head of household, hurled insults at him and even raised her hand as if to threaten violence.<\/p>\n<p>Should he beat his wife? Stand up to her? Show her what it means to obey? Those were among televangelist Pat Robertson\u2019s implications last week on his show, \u201cThe 700 Club,\u201d\u009d which drew angry protests and renewed debate over what it means to be a Christian husband \u201d\u201d or wife.<\/p>\n<p>Some 2,000 years after the Resurrection, the outcry highlights how intensely society still grapples with these roles.<\/p>\n<p>But those who use Scripture to argue that wives are somehow lesser than husbands are missing Christ\u2019s larger message, according to an array of local ministers, from traditional to progressive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20120916\/PC1204\/120919478\/1165\/should-wives-obey-comments-spur-debate-over-role-of-christian-women\">Read it all<\/a> from the local paper Faith and Values section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What would Jesus advise if call-in Christian talk shows were around in his day? Say a viewer wrote in, distraught that his wife did not respect him as the head of household, hurled insults at him and even raised her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34600\">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":[39,40,54,175,168,98,177,151,108,34,169,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-scripture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34600","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=34600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}