{"id":6317,"date":"2015-10-05T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/christianpiatt\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2015-10-05T19:39:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T19:39:47","slug":"an-opportunity-for-grace-in-the-face-of-hateful-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christianpiatt\/2015\/10\/an-opportunity-for-grace-in-the-face-of-hateful-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"An Opportunity for Grace in the Face of Hateful Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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My wife, rev. Amy Piatt, bringing refreshments to protesters and comforting upset congregants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

There\u2019s little in this world that gets me going more aggressively and quickly in life than someone yelling at or denigrating my wife. Yesterday, a pair of fire-breathing evangelists did both.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, my wife isn\u2019t me. I was down the street preparing for a lecture I was doing this week. Rather than taking their emotional bait, she responds with the kind of grace that changes things.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m good at writing about how we change the world a gesture, a relationship, a word at a time. But she\u2019s actually a hell of a lot better at doing it. Maybe she should be writing \u201cNot That Kind of Christian<\/a>\u201d instead of me.<\/p>\n