{"id":57360,"date":"2017-02-10T18:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_hill_evangelical_leaders_buy_ad_denouncing_trump_refugee_ban\/"},"modified":"2017-02-10T18:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:00:20","slug":"the_hill_evangelical_leaders_buy_ad_denouncing_trump_refugee_ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57360","title":{"rendered":"(The Hill) Evangelical leaders buy ad denouncing Trump refugee ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Christians, we have a historic call expressed over two thousand years, to serve the suffering. We cannot abandon this call now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The evangelical leaders acknowledge the world is dangerous, adding that they &#8220;affirm the crucial role of government in protecting us from harm and in setting in terms on refugee admissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, compassion and security can coexist, as they have for decades,&#8221; the ad says. &#8220;For the persecuted and suffering, every day matters; every delay is a crushing blow to hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we are eager to welcome persecuted Christians, we also welcome vulnerable Muslims and people of other faiths or no faith at all,&#8221; the ad says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/318477-evangelical-leaders-buy-ad-denouncing-trump-refugee-ban\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>I will take comments on this submitted by email only to KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As Christians, we have a historic call expressed over two thousand years, to serve the suffering. We cannot abandon this call now.&#8221; The evangelical leaders acknowledge the world is dangerous, adding that they &#8220;affirm the crucial role of government in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57360\">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":[39,40,50,42,209,175,143,168,419,144,147,616,154,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-foreign-relations","category-immigration","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57360","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=57360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}