{"id":586,"date":"2010-06-30T11:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=586"},"modified":"2010-06-30T11:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T18:14:39","slug":"pewless-by-martin-e-marty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/30\/pewless-by-martin-e-marty\/","title":{"rendered":"Pewless by Martin E. Marty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This spring a certain Christian layperson has been criticized for not exiting his local church when he disagreed with something his pastor preached.<\/p>\n<p>The experts on the subject have been, as far as I can tell, media personnel who never go to church, do not know what sermons are for, and have not experienced lively congregational participation; people who value fidelity very little and church hopping and sermon shopping very highly; those who have political stakes in their judgment; and people who pay no attention to the contexts of messages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article.lasso?id=4745\">The Christian Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring a certain Christian layperson has been criticized for not exiting his local church when he disagreed with something his pastor preached. The experts on the subject have been, as far as I can tell, media personnel who never go to church, do not know what sermons are for, and have not experienced lively &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/06\/30\/pewless-by-martin-e-marty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pewless by Martin E. Marty<\/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":[33,34,39,66,89,97,147,165],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-communication","tag-community","tag-crap","tag-fundamentalists","tag-injustice","tag-leadership","tag-storytelling","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}