{"id":48,"date":"2005-02-24T18:04:10","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T00:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.ragedied.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2005-02-24T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T00:04:10","slug":"syntax-over-substance-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/2005\/02\/24\/syntax-over-substance-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Syntax over Substance (cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye, correctly or not, Colson is the Mind and Wallis is the Heart in the argument of a Christian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moral responsibility in society today. One espouses doctrinal accuracy and the other charitable compassion; one trusts the guiding of the heart and the other the guiding of the intellect. Compassion let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the heart of God lead the way and intellect looks for safer ground in the immutable Word of God and, in the words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everypoet.com\/archive\/poetry\/Rudyard_Kipling\/kipling_the_ballad_of_east_and_west.htm\">Rudyard Kipling, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153and never the twain shall meet\u00e2\u20ac?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that Chuck Colson is uncaring or that Jim Wallis is intellectually devoid but I will say that Colson is more of an ideologue while Wallis is more pragmatic\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Funny, you would think the opposite would be true.<\/p>\n<p>It is a question of doing good verses being good.  Wallis wants to deal with the hurt that is right here, right now and Colson is digging for the spiritual roots of society&#8217;s woes and neither may be getting it &#8220;right&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the latest from the boys:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sojo.net\/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&#038;issue=050224#3\">An open letter to Chuck Colson by Jim Wallis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pfm.org\/AM\/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint_Commentaries1&#038;TEMPLATE=\/CM\/ContentDisplay.cfm&#038;CONTENTID=15397\">Moral Equivalency: The Religious Left Gets It Wrong, BreakPoint with Charles Colson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my mind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eye, correctly or not, Colson is the Mind and Wallis is the Heart in the argument of a Christian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moral responsibility in society today. One espouses doctrinal accuracy and the other charitable compassion; one trusts the guiding of the heart and the other the guiding of the intellect. Compassion let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4pNDf-M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/revivalprojects.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}