{"id":7766,"date":"2016-05-06T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7766"},"modified":"2016-05-06T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:27:08","slug":"when-the-church-doesnt-feel-triumphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7766","title":{"rendered":"When The Church Doesn&#8217;t Feel Triumphant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Abandoned Church Building .\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/91992261@N08\/13239505914\/in\/photolist-maVVRm-f2i8dn-mXfC5T-pGHmFo-fEoKxw-cz3uF1-9323Ek-phZ1ky-qiMcQH-oqVY61-a9f8sW-hGZHSZ-j4Pgye-pGWMfp-ad7wVY-cTw9nm-pzd81z-isQZj5-kZ1sVy-9re3GZ-nc8cCs-94jdjX-5Gen5o-dxX5C1-hYHTWA-eJjQ7N-99Z2Bf-botoNB-dVJq6N-a6y5hw-oz8GJz-fhYaeq-aZxQcB-bHwg6X-of7LPx-efiDBc-94nidW-oa22x2-oEMsgw-e6Rjde-d5F2nJ-a6etJY-92rFw1-dMidon-4Jq9wY-36HRoi-b68rkr-ipeUbP-52eKiJ-94ni7C\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7341\/13239505914_3f186ed785.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Abandoned Church Building .\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Russell Moore on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/06\/opinion\/a-white-church-no-more.html?_r=0\">the church in America<\/a>\u00a0and our intersection with public policies in today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>. We are not a majority white church anymore more nor should\u00a0we want to be.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bible calls on Christians to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Galatians+6%3A2&amp;version=ESV\">bear one another\u2019s burdens<\/a>. White American Christians who respond to cultural tumult with nostalgia fail to do this. They are blinding themselves to the injustices faced by their black and brown brothers and sisters in the supposedly idyllic Mayberry of white Christian America. That world was murder, sometimes literally, for minority evangelicals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alan Noble talks about \u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2016\/february-web-only\/race-and-race.html\">politicization of our morals<\/a> and how that has\u00a0raised\u00a0fences around our communities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Politics do not (or at least should not) define us, but cultural values that are traditionally wrapped up in political movements impact our perception of our neighbor. If politicians and the pundits who support them regularly speak about immigrants as <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/11\/12\/politics\/ted-cruz-immigration-h1-b-visas\/\">threats to our country<\/a> or view poor minorities as drains on our economy, or if they mock Christian voters as backwards bigots and pro-life advocates as anti-woman, it shapes the way we envision one another. We grow skeptical of one another, hostile, and cynical. In a word, we become less neighborly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Moore on the church in America\u00a0and our intersection with public policies in today&#8217;s New York Times. We are not a majority white church anymore more nor should\u00a0we want to be. The Bible calls on Christians to bear one another\u2019s burdens. White American Christians who respond to cultural tumult with nostalgia fail to do this. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When The Church Doesn&#8217;t Feel Triumphant<\/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":[14],"tags":[165,500,514,2293],"class_list":["post-7766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","tag-american","tag-christianity","tag-church","tag-race"],"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\/7766","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=7766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}