{"id":4340,"date":"2008-01-31T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cleric_urges_a_science_and_religion_dialogue\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T16:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:17:00","slug":"cleric_urges_a_science_and_religion_dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4340","title":{"rendered":"Cleric Urges a Science and Religion Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by what he called the increasingly vocal hostility of some religions to science, and some scientists to religion, the president of the United Church of Christ has appealed for both groups to communicate more openly and to recognize, as he put it, that each has something to contribute to the other.<\/p>\n<p>Faith is not a matter of \u201cclinging to ancient misconceptions,\u201d\u009d the leader, the Rev. John H. Thomas, wrote Tuesday in a letter to the church\u2019s 1.2 million adherents, in 5,700 American congregations. \u201cToday one of God\u2019s most provocative voices is science.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/31\/us\/31church.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;ref=us&#038;pagewanted=print\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prompted by what he called the increasingly vocal hostility of some religions to science, and some scientists to religion, the president of the United Church of Christ has appealed for both groups to communicate more openly and to recognize, as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4340\">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":[39,42,154,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340","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=4340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}