{"id":11744,"date":"2011-02-06T17:39:16","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11744"},"modified":"2011-02-06T17:39:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T22:39:16","slug":"the-blind-leading-the-benighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-blind-leading-the-benighted\/","title":{"rendered":"The blind leading the benighted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/au.christiantoday.com\/article\/obama-names-new-members-of-the-faith-advisory-council\/10187.htm?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The heads of the National Association of Evangelicals and The Episcopal Church are among those newly named to President Barack Obama&#8217;s faith advisory council.<\/p>\n<p>Obama announced on Friday his intent to appoint a dozen religious and secular leaders, including NAE president Leith Anderson and Episcopal Presiding Bishop the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am grateful for the opportunity to be of service to the larger community in this way,&#8221; Jefferts Schori said in a statement. &#8220;The ability to build partnerships between civic and religious bodies can only expand our capacity to heal a broken world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The question is, will Jefferts Schori &#8211; in just one year- manage to accomplish for Obama what she has wrought in four in the Anglican Communion: schism, mayhem, blight, litigation and omnipresent lamentation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The heads of the National Association of Evangelicals and The Episcopal Church are among those newly named to President Barack Obama&#8217;s faith advisory council. Obama announced on Friday his intent to appoint a dozen religious and secular leaders, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-blind-leading-the-benighted\/\">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":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[745,973,2215],"class_list":["post-11744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-katherine-jefferts-schori-2","tag-faith-advisory-council","tag-katherine-jefferts-schori","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}