{"id":5383,"date":"2013-07-03T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2013-07-03T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T19:59:48","slug":"are-evangelicals-too-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5383","title":{"rendered":"Are Evangelicals Too Political?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some are saying evangelical Christians should realize they have been defeated in recent political skirmishes and shut up. They&#8217;ve been too political for too long, they say. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outofur.com\/archives\/2013\/07\/evangelicals_ar.html\">Out of Ur says his experience hasn&#8217;t been dominated by politics.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the lack of politics in my evangelical church experience, why do 75% of young non-Christians say evangelicals are &#8216;too political&#8217;? &#8230; Either my church engagement is wildly outside the norm, or perhaps evangelicals aren\u2019t as devoted to political social engineering as the outside culture seems to believe we are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even NPR&#8217;s Ira Glass thinks &#8220;what Christians really are is not being documented by the press.&#8221; But perception is deemed reality by most, if not all, of us, so how do we counter a politicized perception of who we are? (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevinwax\/2013\/07\/03\/worth-a-look-7-3-13\/\">Trevin Wax<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some are saying evangelical Christians should realize they have been defeated in recent political skirmishes and shut up. They&#8217;ve been too political for too long, they say. But Out of Ur says his experience hasn&#8217;t been dominated by politics. &#8220;Given the lack of politics in my evangelical church experience, why do 75% of young non-Christians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5383\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are Evangelicals Too Political?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}