{"id":19448,"date":"2013-05-21T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19448"},"modified":"2013-05-21T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:36:08","slug":"the-road-to-damascus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-road-to-damascus\/","title":{"rendered":"The road to Damascus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanink.com\/article\/diversity-not-jesus-saves-says-presiding-bishop#.UZp43NrKnS8.facebook\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has denounced the Apostle Paul as mean-spirited and bigoted for having released a slave girl from demonic bondage as reported in Acts 16:16-34 .\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just prior to this unfortunate encounter I was travelling on the road to Damascus musing on Paul&#8217;s more providential encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Call me a blind optimist if you must but, as an experiment, I would like to set the Presiding Bishop  and numerous other Anglican bishops &#8211; who shall remain nameless &#8211; on this road of destiny, point them in the right direction and tell them to start walking. It <em>could<\/em> work, couldn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot more traffic these days, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across this: The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has denounced the Apostle Paul as mean-spirited and bigoted for having released a slave girl from demonic bondage as reported in Acts 16:16-34 . Just prior to this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-road-to-damascus\/\">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":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19448","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=19448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}