{"id":99044,"date":"2017-02-02T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=99044"},"modified":"2017-02-02T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T16:18:44","slug":"steve-bullivant-saw-megachurches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/02\/steve-bullivant-saw-megachurches.html","title":{"rendered":"Steve Bullivant on What He Saw in the Megachurches"},"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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/issues\/february-3rd-2017\/what-i-saw-in-the-megachurches\/#.WJLWaB3ngM0.facebook\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Interesting piece on what Catholics might be able to learn from Evangelicals.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Church has always been a magpie, borrowing from everybody from Aristotle to German pagans to the thought of (gasp!) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2006\/01\/europe-and-its-discontents\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">democratic socialists<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/w2.vatican.va\/content\/benedict-xvi\/en\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">democratic capitalists<\/a> when it\u2019s useful and comports with the tradition.  There\u2019s no reason she can\u2019t look at what works in Evangelicalism and do the same, particularly because, at present, the American church is bleeding to death, largely from self-inflicted wounds.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting piece on what Catholics might be able to learn from Evangelicals. The Church has always been a magpie, borrowing from everybody from Aristotle to German pagans to the thought of (gasp!) democratic socialists or democratic capitalists when it\u2019s useful and comports with the tradition. There\u2019s no reason she can\u2019t look at what works in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[219],"class_list":["post-99044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-evangelical-stuff"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Steve Bullivant on What He Saw in the Megachurches<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interesting piece on what Catholics might be able to learn from Evangelicals. 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