{"id":65510,"date":"2017-11-19T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T22:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65510"},"modified":"2017-11-19T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T23:18:27","slug":"food-for-thought-from-the-tec-bishop-of-dallas-reflecting-on-a-recent-advert-of-the-hemlock-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65510","title":{"rendered":"Food for Thought from the TEC Bishop of Dallas reflecting on a recent &#8220;advert of the Hemlock Society&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an advert of the Hemlock Society, presenters at a diocesan convention, believe it or not. \u201cWe&#8217;ve moved far past these primitive notions of a God ruling life &#8211; perhaps now we can see how in such cases taking life enhances quality life &#8211; and our powers to affect this may be God&#8217;s will in our time &#8211; who is he anyway to command life and death &#8211; our methods are so pastoral now&#8230; .\u201d The soft offer of half-truths to an opposite end &#8211; to learn whose soft voice that really is where spiritual safety lies.  To hear God&#8217;s voice plainly as His, even in the modern hall of mirrors &#8211; what if that is the higher wisdom? To reject the soft, spiritual, skeptical voice, Girma Wormtongue&#8217;s, may be the key to Christian ethics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edod.org\/bishops-blog\/the-other-soft-voice\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read an advert of the Hemlock Society, presenters at a diocesan convention, believe it or not. \u201cWe&#8217;ve moved far past these primitive notions of a God ruling life &#8211; perhaps now we can see how in such cases<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65510\">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":[36,73,209,175,438,66,168,108,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-analysis","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-tec-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65510","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=65510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65511,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65510\/revisions\/65511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}