{"id":51268,"date":"2015-08-19T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eric_metaxas_western_churches_and_the_wrong_side_of_history\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T16:56:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T16:56:08","slug":"eric_metaxas_western_churches_and_the_wrong_side_of_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51268","title":{"rendered":"Eric Metaxas: Western Churches and the Wrong Side of History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..the real clash of cultures is happening not among governments, but between churches; specifically between churches in the West\u201d\u201dthat is, in Europe and the U.S.\u201d\u201dand churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the Washington Post ran a story about the growing tension between Anglican and evangelical churches in the West and their daughter congregations abroad. While many churches in Europe and America have shriveled as they drift from biblical Christianity, their counterparts in the global south have thrived. These missionary plants haven\u2019t gotten the memo about rewriting two thousand years of Christian orthodoxy. And they\u2019re puzzled and more than a little worried when Westerners come bearing the sexual revolution instead of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breakpoint.org\/bpcommentaries\/entry\/13\/28012\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..the real clash of cultures is happening not among governments, but between churches; specifically between churches in the West\u201d\u201dthat is, in Europe and the U.S.\u201d\u201dand churches in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Last year the Washington Post ran a story<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51268\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-identity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51268","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}