{"id":54664,"date":"2016-06-08T00:40:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_helpful_corrective_to_the_present_political_headlines_from_eugene_peterso\/"},"modified":"2016-06-08T00:40:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T00:40:01","slug":"a_helpful_corrective_to_the_present_political_headlines_from_eugene_peterso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54664","title":{"rendered":"A Helpful Corrective to the Present Political Headlines from Eugene Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This world is no friend to grace\u201d\u00a6The world is protean: each generation has the world to deal with in a new form. World is an atmosphere, a mood. It is nearly as hard for a sinner to recognize the world\u2019s temptations as it is for a fish to discover impurities in the water. There is a sense, a feeling, that things aren\u2019t right, that the environment is not whole, but just what it is eludes analysis. We know that the spiritual atmosphere in which we live erodes faith, dissipates hope and corrupts love, but it is hard to put our finger on what is wrong\u201d\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p>People submerged in a culture swarming with lies and malice feel as if they were drowning in it: they can trust nothing they hear, depend on no one they meet. Such dissatisfaction with the world as it is is preparation for traveling in the way of Christian discipleship. The dissatisfaction, coupled with a longing for peace and truth, can set us on a pilgrim path of wholeness in God.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tedschroder.com\/a-helpful-corrective-to-the-present-political-headlines\">Read it all<\/a> (with our thanks to TS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This world is no friend to grace\u201d\u00a6The world is protean: each generation has the world to deal with in a new form. World is an atmosphere, a mood. It is nearly as hard for a sinner to recognize the world\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54664\">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":[48,39,40,175,162,168,151,108,34,166,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-christology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-theology-holy-spirit-pneumatology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664","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=54664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}