{"id":36129,"date":"2012-12-10T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_dick_gross-a_tale_of_two_leaders\/"},"modified":"2012-12-10T03:00:25","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:00:25","slug":"smh_dick_gross-a_tale_of_two_leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36129","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Dick Gross&#8211;A tale of two leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a spooky, dare I say, godly coincidence, two of the world&#8217;s important religions obtained new leaders in the past fortnight. What makes the coincidence seem so like divine providence is that both leaders started their vocational life not fired by the sacred but as industrialists.<\/p>\n<p>The Coptic Church is now led by Pope Tawadros (Theodore) II, who ran a pharmaceutical factory until he saw the light. Former oil industry executive Justin Welby, meanwhile, was selected to be enthroned in March as the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>Both had late onset religious conversions&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/blogs\/godless-gross\/a-tale-of-two-leaders-20121203-2apyg.html#ixzz2EbKcRdl9<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/blogs\/godless-gross\/a-tale-of-two-leaders-20121203-2apyg.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a spooky, dare I say, godly coincidence, two of the world&#8217;s important religions obtained new leaders in the past fortnight. What makes the coincidence seem so like divine providence is that both leaders started their vocational life not fired<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36129\">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":[36,50,42,202,74,67,389,635,411,560,426,203,659,327,154,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129","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=36129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}