{"id":8639,"date":"2014-07-19T18:44:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T22:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8639"},"modified":"2014-07-19T18:44:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T22:44:56","slug":"in-sweden-human-darkness-is-confronted-by-the-arts-not-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/07\/in-sweden-human-darkness-is-confronted-by-the-arts-not-the-church.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;In Sweden, Human Darkness Is Confronted by the Arts, Not the Church&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>terrific final paragraphs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The culture wars afflicting the Church of England are basically over. By the end of the summer, the General Synod will have agreed women bishops. And while the fight for full gay equality has some way to run, this one is substantially over too: not least because the demographics are pushing inexorably in a liberal direction. Young people, even evangelicals, don\u2019t see the problem. So Christian progressives like me ought to be celebrating? Well, not quite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/belief\/2014\/may\/30\/sweden-human-darkness-confronted-arts-church\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>terrific final paragraphs: The culture wars afflicting the Church of England are basically over. By the end of the summer, the General Synod will have agreed women bishops. 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