{"id":2505,"date":"2007-08-11T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:55:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:55:50","slug":"tbte20070811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2505","title":{"rendered":"TBTE20070811"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/Rr3l_6X0i9I\/AAAAAAAABHw\/YYpe7ojbseo\/s1600-h\/TBTE20070811.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_h8lco0yxl-k\/Rr3l_6X0i9I\/AAAAAAAABHw\/YYpe7ojbseo\/s400\/TBTE20070811.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>This might seem paradoxical, but I suspect part of my drive in digging into PSA is a desire to find common ground with evangelicals. It&#8217;s one aspect of how and where I&#8217;ve grown in my understanding of the faith over the last few years because in person (and I accept that this may not come across on the blog!) I do seek consensus and common ground. I just find PSA virtually impossible to swallow. So it becomes like a pebble in the shoe &#8211; I just won&#8217;t get comfortable until I know what to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>A different image: I feel like I am emerging out from underneath a heavy rock as I get stuck in to understanding evangelicalism. I still carry some wounds from early exposure to bad theology (bad evangelical theology). The trouble is, I see PSA as part of the rock and I still have to do some heavy lifting to get the rock off my back.<\/p>\n<p>If PSA isn&#8217;t part of the rock then that is a good thing. But clearly &#8211; as at least Tim has realised \ud83d\ude09 &#8211; some of the issues at stake in all this aren&#8217;t simply about PSA! Ho hum. This blog &#8211; and my life &#8211; are works in progress. <\/p>\n<p>Or: it&#8217;s not enough to be right, I have to be loving. I have become precisely that which I was criticising; I am mirroring the spirituality. <\/p>\n<p>I am cursing the darkness when what I actually need to get on with is lighting candles.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might seem paradoxical, but I suspect part of my drive in digging into PSA is a desire to find common ground with evangelicals. It&#8217;s one aspect of how and where I&#8217;ve grown in my understanding of the faith over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2505\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[73,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atonement","category-autobiography","category-tbte"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Ep","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6505,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions\/6505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}