{"id":6913,"date":"2017-04-26T00:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T05:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2017-04-25T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T03:25:30","slug":"learning-from-those-you-disagree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"LEARNING FROM THOSE YOU DISAGREE WITH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"js-tweet-text-container\">\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--normal js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\"><strong>There is an irony of sorts with the quote below.\u00a0 Greg Boyd, who mentioned it on his Twitter account, is a pastor and scholar.\u00a0 He holds to Open Theism, a position, I do not.\u00a0 Boyd wrote a terrific book called <em>The Myth of a Christian Nation<\/em>.\u00a0 I recommend it highly.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--normal js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\"><strong>Lesson: All of us must be careful to listen and learn from others, even when we are predisposed to write them off.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--normal js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0310267315\/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0310267315\/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--normal js-tweet-text tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" data-aria-label-part=\"0\"><strong>&#8220;You are truly open minded when, instead of looking for what&#8217;s wrong in your opponent&#8217;s position, you&#8217;re looking for what might be right.&#8221; (Greg Boyd)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item-footer\">\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-actionCountList u-hiddenVisually\"><span class=\"ProfileTweet-action--reply u-hiddenVisually\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-actionList js-actions\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-action ProfileTweet-action--retweet js-toggleState js-toggleRt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-action ProfileTweet-action--retweet js-toggleState js-toggleRt\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-action ProfileTweet-action--favorite js-toggleState\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ProfileTweet-action ProfileTweet-action--favorite js-toggleState\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an irony of sorts with the quote below.\u00a0 Greg Boyd, who mentioned it on his Twitter account, is a pastor and scholar.\u00a0 He holds to Open Theism, a position, I do not.\u00a0 Boyd wrote a terrific book called The Myth of a Christian Nation.\u00a0 I recommend it highly.\u00a0 Lesson: All of us must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,37,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversy","category-learningeducation","category-love"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}