{"id":25326,"date":"2014-07-26T08:25:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=25326"},"modified":"2014-07-26T08:25:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T12:25:59","slug":"a-saloon-with-high-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/07\/a-saloon-with-high-standards.html","title":{"rendered":"A Saloon with High Standards"},"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><div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25340\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2014\/07\/church-saloon.jpg\" alt=\"church saloon\" width=\"590\" height=\"177\"><\/div>\n<p>The cartoon above was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internetmonk.com\/archive\/49848\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shared on the Internet Monk blog<\/a>. It got me thinking. A church having an informal, conversational atmosphere, beverages, and even opportunities for karaoke seem to me to potentially be good things. Why can\u2019t we combine that with high standards, not in the sense that we become rigid and dogmatic, but that we have a common commitment to personal integrity and social justice?<\/p>\n<p>Would <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/blogs\/archive\/2014-07\/when-doing-church-differently-means-doing-it-same\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one good model for at least some churches<\/a> be \u201ca saloon with high standards\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cartoon above was shared on the Internet Monk blog. It got me thinking. A church having an informal, conversational atmosphere, beverages, and even opportunities for karaoke seem to me to potentially be good things. 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