{"id":3151,"date":"2010-07-06T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/the-invaluable-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T22:25:26","slug":"the-invaluable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2010\/07\/the-invaluable-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The invaluable&#8230;"},"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>Christopher Johnson, whose ongoing anguish over the Thing that Used to be the Episcopal Church <a href=\"http:\/\/themcj.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">is chronicled here<\/a>, sends along this ray of hope in the vast trainwreck of the Piskies:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nut graf.  The guy writing this is a confirmed Calvinist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why would they do that? Sure they needed to pay for renovations at the newly merged Sts John and Andrew\u2019s, but from our perspective the only reasonable explanation for their offer is that they are servants of Jesus Christ. How strange and wonderful after the long graceless famine that marked our dealings with fellow Episcopalians to see Him in Catholic eyes and to hear Him in Catholic words.<\/p>\n<p>The overwhelming Christian charity of the Roman Catholic Church had surprised and frustrated those who had for a long time worked for our speedy demise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standfirminfaith.com\/index.php\/sf\/page\/26294\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">BE SURE and read the whole thing.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Love.  It does wonders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Johnson, whose ongoing anguish over the Thing that Used to be the Episcopal Church is chronicled here, sends along this ray of hope in the vast trainwreck of the Piskies: Nut graf. The guy writing this is a confirmed Calvinist. Why would they do that? 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