{"id":1177,"date":"2005-04-23T13:04:39","date_gmt":"2005-04-23T17:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2005\/04\/23\/just-liked-this-irenic-thought\/"},"modified":"2005-04-23T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2005-04-23T17:04:39","slug":"just-liked-this-irenic-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2005\/04\/23\/just-liked-this-irenic-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Just liked this irenic thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1002'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/akma.disseminary.org\/archives\/2005\/04\/sign_of_truth.html\">From<br \/>\nAKMA, in a sort-of-tangential comment on the matter of the &#8220;Connecticut<br \/>\nSix&#8221; (whom you really don&#8217;t need to know about to appreciate the<br \/>\ncomment).<\/a>&nbsp; (It also seems applicable to the situation some of<br \/>\nour Roman Catholic friends find themselves in this week, both<br \/>\nconservatives who think they&#8217;ve &#8220;won&#8221; and liberals who may despair a<br \/>\nbit.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would take a lot of persuading &#x2014; the kind typically associated with<br \/>\nbiblical miracles &#x2014; to convince me that justice in the church should<br \/>\ninvolve one party prevailing over the other in an unambiguous way.<br \/>\nUnder the circumstances, though I know no one will like it and everyone<br \/>\nfeel wounded, it looks to me as though the only way that leads closer<br \/>\nto God involves us all enduring for a while in uncorrected injustice,<br \/>\nand having faith that the God in whose grace and love we put our whole<br \/>\ntrust will bring a church of frayed-but-bound-together affections to a<br \/>\nfuller understanding of what justice requires of us.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AKMA, in a sort-of-tangential comment on the matter of the &#8220;Connecticut Six&#8221; (whom you really don&#8217;t need to know about to appreciate the comment).&nbsp; (It also seems applicable to the situation some of our Roman Catholic friends find themselves in this week, both conservatives who think they&#8217;ve &#8220;won&#8221; and liberals who may despair a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rayleejun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-iZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}