{"id":3522,"date":"2013-12-31T00:45:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3522"},"modified":"2013-12-31T00:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T04:50:05","slug":"moving-with-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=3522","title":{"rendered":"Moving With Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know who I am.  I am a Christian.  I love my heritage and thank God for it.  But my identity as a Christian can never be a barrier, a wall, a reason for apartheid.  Rather, my identity as a follower of Christ requires me first to move toward the other in friendship, and then to move <em>with<\/em> the other in service to those in need.  In so doing, both the other and I are transformed from counterparts to partners.  This is good news for both the haves and the have-nots.  The haves suffer dehumanization &#8212; a loss of human-kindness &#8212; when they hold themselves aloof from their fellow humans, just as the have-nots suffer when the haves hoard wealth and opportunity at the have-nots&#8217; expense.  The gospel calls both to discover salvation in encounter with the other, in the love of God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian D. McLaren, <em>Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and Mohammed Cross the Road?<\/em>, p. 249<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know who I am. I am a Christian. I love my heritage and thank God for it. But my identity as a Christian can never be a barrier, a wall, a reason for apartheid. Rather, my identity as a follower of Christ requires me first to move toward the other in friendship, and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-community","category-connection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}