{"id":4117,"date":"2016-07-04T19:45:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T03:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2016-07-04T19:45:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T03:45:38","slug":"christianity-and-patriotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/04\/christianity-and-patriotism","title":{"rendered":"Christianity and Patriotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Stanford students feel ambivalent about celebrating America because of her great flaws. If that\u2019s you, I urge you to consider these three articles.&nbsp;They are listed in order of helpfulness.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And if you\u2019re an international student, I hope these articles encourage you to love your own homeland \u2014 patriotism rightly understood is a good thing and it encompasses people from all nations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thegospelcoalition.org\/thabitianyabwile\/2012\/07\/03\/chesterton-on-patriotism-with-an-application-to-u-s-elections\/\">Chesterton On Patriotism, With An Application To US Elections<\/a> (Thabiti Anyabwile, Gospel Coalition): note that this one is four years old. Some profound thoughts in&nbsp;here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dougwils.com\/s7-engaging-the-culture\/110097.html\">American Jesus<\/a> (Douglas Wilson, personal blog): I debated whether to include this one or not. I agree with enough of it to invite you to wrestle with&nbsp;it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/biblestudies\/articles\/spiritualformation\/patriotismchristian.html?start=1\">Is Patriotism Christian?<\/a>&nbsp;(Brandon O\u2019Brien, Christianity Today): this is the most comprehensive of the&nbsp;three.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And so, should it be legal in your jurisdiction, blow something sparkly up tonight.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Stanford students feel ambivalent about celebrating America because of her great flaws. If that\u2019s you, I urge you to consider these three articles.&nbsp;They are listed in order of helpfulness. And if you\u2019re an international student, I hope these articles encourage you to love your own homeland \u2014 patriotism rightly understood is a good thing \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2016\/07\/04\/christianity-and-patriotism\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cChristianity and Patriotism\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,169],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-america","tag-patriotism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-14p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4119,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions\/4119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}