{"id":47057,"date":"2014-11-25T22:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/f_things_r_r_renno-to_rend_is_not_to_retreat\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T22:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T22:34:28","slug":"f_things_r_r_renno-to_rend_is_not_to_retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47057","title":{"rendered":"(F Things) R R Reno&#8211;To Rend Is Not to Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does the call for Christians to separate matrimony from government marriage mean we\u2019re retreating from the public square? Damon Linker thinks so. He calls it an \u201cunprecedented retreat of theologically conservative churches from engagement in American public life.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s exactly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>If the Marriage Pledge is a retreat, it\u2019s a retreat from this: the illusion that the Christian view of marriage can comfortably accommodate a definition of marriage that has strayed so far from revelation and reason that it now allows men to marry men and women to marry women. We all have to live with the reality of the sexual revolution, but Christians cannot make peace with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2014\/11\/to-rend-is-not-to-retreat\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the call for Christians to separate matrimony from government marriage mean we\u2019re retreating from the public square? Damon Linker thinks so. He calls it an \u201cunprecedented retreat of theologically conservative churches from engagement in American public life.\u201d\u009d That\u2019s exactly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47057\">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":[48,39,175,168,114,183,98,435,184,177,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47057","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=47057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}