{"id":83254,"date":"2019-07-01T17:01:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83254"},"modified":"2019-07-01T17:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T21:43:46","slug":"ct-evangelicals-can-help-at-the-border-they-just-cant-do-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83254","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Evangelicals Can Help at the Border. They Just Can\u2019t Do It Alone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text\">Leaders like San Antonio pastor Max Lucado have urged Christians to pray and act. \u201cThis is a mess. A humanitarian, heartbreaking mess. As we are wondering what can be done, let\u2019s do what we are called to do,\u201d he wrote in a lament for CT. \u201cLet\u2019s pray. Let\u2019s lament. Let\u2019s groan.\u201d (You can read a collection of six Christian leaders\u2019 prayers for the border <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2019\/july-web-only\/grieving-our-broken-border-christian-leaders-lucado-lament.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Grief over the conditions at the border has compelled many evangelical Christians to act, but they prefer to work directly with evangelical mercy ministries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">However, in these moments when the law stands between Christians and acts of mercy\u2014like not being able to drop off donations at a detention center\u2014they can be uncomfortable with idea of supporting government aid or state humanitarian efforts, said Kathryn Freeman, director of public policy for the Texas Baptists\u2019 Christian Life Commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">\u201cEven for Christians who tend to be leery of government intervention,\u201d Freeman said, to get the diapers and wipes to the children in custody, \u201cthe reality is that Congress has to take that up and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2019\/july\/evangelicals-help-at-border-children-government-catholic-tx.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Grief over border conditions compels Christians to act, with many favoring working directly with evangelical mercy ministries.<\/p>\n<p>But when the law stands between Christians and acts of mercy, supporting state humanitarian efforts can make them uncomfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VlfFZ7SRyy\">https:\/\/t.co\/VlfFZ7SRyy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1145783884434554880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaders like San Antonio pastor Max Lucado have urged Christians to pray and act. \u201cThis is a mess. A humanitarian, heartbreaking mess. As we are wondering what can be done, let\u2019s do what we are called to do,\u201d he wrote<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=83254\">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":[209,175,101,168,419,144,104,147,436,177,151,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-evangelicals","category-foreign-relations","category-health-medicine","category-immigration","category-pastoral-care","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83254","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=83254"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83258,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83254\/revisions\/83258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}