{"id":6251,"date":"2015-05-12T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:45:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:45:51","slug":"lengles-mr-murray-on-loving-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6251","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s Mr. Murray on Loving Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px; float: left; margin: 6px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=brandbooks-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=0374386161&amp;asins=0374386161&amp;linkId=ZYQO5G55KXGOFWIO&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/p>\n<p><\/iframe>Jordan J. Ballor reveals how &#8220;a newly discovered section of Madeleine L\u2019Engle\u2019s classic <i>A Wrinkle in Time<\/i> (1963), which was excised before the book\u2019s publication, makes clear the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kirkcenter.org\/index.php\/bookman\/article\/lengles-conservatism\/\">author\u2019s classically conservative vision<\/a> of political and social order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The passage was uncovered by L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s granddaughter. In it, Meg talks to her father about how IT came to run over Camazotz. Mr. Murray replies that old fashioned totalitarianism was involved, but also prosperity and a &#8220;lust for security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a gloss on the famous passage from Paul\u2019s first epistle to Timothy, Mr. Murry concludes that the love of security is \u201cthe greatest evil there is.\u201d Placing security as the highest social good leads people to stop taking risks, to cease being entrepreneurial, to give up liberty, and even love itself.&#8221; (via Hunter Baker)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan J. Ballor reveals how &#8220;a newly discovered section of Madeleine L\u2019Engle\u2019s classic A Wrinkle in Time (1963), which was excised before the book\u2019s publication, makes clear the author\u2019s classically conservative vision of political and social order.&#8221; The passage was uncovered by L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s granddaughter. In it, Meg talks to her father about how IT came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6251\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">L&#8217;Engle&#8217;s Mr. Murray on Loving Security<\/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":[2,7],"tags":[82,1735],"class_list":["post-6251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-fiction","tag-a-wrinkle-in-time","tag-madeleine-lengle"],"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\/6251","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=6251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}