{"id":16,"date":"2002-07-11T09:56:50","date_gmt":"2002-07-11T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2002-07-11T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2002-07-11T14:56:50","slug":"straw-men-twisting-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2002\/07\/11\/straw-men-twisting-doctrine\/","title":{"rendered":"Straw Men, twisting doctrine …"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are listening to<\/a> the Auburn Ave Pastors Conference <\/a>from this past January. It’s frustrating. Schlissel in particular. Wilson too. We’ve really enjoyed their writings in the past. But things they are a-changin’<\/p>\n

How they characterize certain Presbyterian ideas … is just dead wrong. Straw men are being erected. Things are so twisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are listening to the Auburn Ave Pastors Conference from this past January. It’s frustrating. Schlissel in particular. Wilson too. We’ve really enjoyed their writings in the past. But things they are a-changin’ How they characterize certain Presbyterian ideas … is just dead wrong. Straw men are being erected. Things are so twisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6798,"url":"https:\/\/hyperthinking.us\/weblog\/2023\/06\/26\/the-cure-2023-atl-beforehand\/","url_meta":{"origin":16,"position":0},"title":"The Cure – 2023 – ATL beforehand","author":"Maisy","date":"Monday, June 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"My hubby and I are going to see The Cure on June 27, 2023, which is tomorrow night, in ATL. 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