{"id":7309,"date":"2017-09-12T10:23:12","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7309"},"modified":"2017-09-12T10:23:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T15:23:12","slug":"public-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7309","title":{"rendered":"PUBLIC CRITICISM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2017\/09\/11\/throckmorton-lambert-johnson-mohler-southern-seminary\/#disqus_thread\">http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2017\/09\/11\/throckmorton-lambert-johnson-mohler-southern-seminary\/#disqus_thread<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In controversies like this one there is a common error, it seems to me, that is made.\u00a0 Here is what I posted in response to Heath Lambert&#8217;s mea culpa:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks for your mea culpa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One quick observation: It is common for preachers (and others) to critique someone with no mention given of the person&#8217;s name. This, however, is not a problem merely because we live in a digital age where the information can be easily found from a search. It is intrinsically wrong. Either say the person&#8217;s name or don&#8217;t quote them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So your apology is appreciated, but I&#8217;m afraid you run afoul of describing the gaffe as wrong because of being in a media-soaked culture. It is not instrumentally wrong. It is intrinsically wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2017\/09\/11\/throckmorton-lambert-johnson-mohler-southern-seminary\/#disqus_thread In controversies like this one there is a common error, it seems to me, that is made.\u00a0 Here is what I posted in response to Heath Lambert&#8217;s mea culpa: Thanks for your mea culpa. One quick observation: It is common for preachers (and others) to critique someone with no mention given of the person&#8217;s [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controversy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309","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=7309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7309\/revisions\/7310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}