{"id":457,"date":"2007-07-23T12:09:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T16:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/457"},"modified":"2007-07-23T16:33:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T20:33:08","slug":"christendom-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/457","title":{"rendered":"Christendom redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theocracies are not new, of course. They spring up all throughout history (and literature), sometimes as a result of a group that sees itself as a &#8220;remnant&#8221; and splits off from a larger religious culture, and sometimes they come about as a result of a reactive or pro-active stance against the wider &#8220;secular city.&#8221; In a world that many describe as &#8220;post Christendom&#8221; a Christian &#8220;city of God&#8221; seems newsworthy: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/us.video.aol.com\/player\/launcher?pmmsid=1944727&#038;autoplay=0&#038;ar=us_en_video_408x406_snag\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"408\" height=\"408\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 0.6em; font-family:tahoma;\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/video.aol.com\">AOL Video<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avemaria.com\/\">Ave Maria community website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11434439\/site\/newsweek\/\">Newsweek<\/a> story here. <\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Would you buy a home and rear children in such a place? Is this what &#8220;discipleship&#8221; means? What questions or issues does this type of community raise in your mind?<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/galindobanner3.jpg' alt='galindobanner3.jpg' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theocracies are not new, of course. They spring up all throughout history (and literature), sometimes as a result of a group that sees itself as a &#8220;remnant&#8221; and splits off from a larger religious culture, and sometimes they come about &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/archives\/457\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,6,5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discipleship","category-ecumenical","category-theology","category-world-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-ed.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}