{"id":575,"date":"2010-06-30T10:22:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-06-30T10:22:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T17:22:11","slug":"restructuring-umc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/30\/restructuring-umc\/","title":{"rendered":"Restructuring UMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The United Methodist Church or, more specifically, its U.S. component, often continues to be entangled in U.S. political and economic ideologies and desires. &#8230; we must clearly grasp that the so-called &#8220;American Way of Life&#8221; requires critique. Capitalism and consumerism are not practices taken straight from the gospel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elaine A Robinson has an interesting article about the need to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbhem.org\/atf\/cf\/%7B0BCEF929-BDBA-4AA0-968F-D1986A8EEF80%7D\/pub_restructuringrobinsonmono.pdf\">restructure UMC in an Age of Empire<\/a> (PDF). Asking questions about the unbalanced relationship between north and south.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Methodist Church or, more specifically, its U.S. component, often continues to be entangled in U.S. political and economic ideologies and desires. &#8230; we must clearly grasp that the so-called &#8220;American Way of Life&#8221; requires critique. Capitalism and consumerism are not practices taken straight from the gospel. Elaine A Robinson has an interesting article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/30\/restructuring-umc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Restructuring UMC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,39,41,45,89,105,146],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-community","tag-crap","tag-creeds","tag-deeds","tag-injustice","tag-mission","tag-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}