{"id":31193,"date":"2015-07-30T06:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31193"},"modified":"2015-07-30T06:27:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T10:27:14","slug":"love-your-neighbor-more-than-your-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/love-your-neighbor-more-than-your-theology.html","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Neighbor More Than Your Theology"},"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><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-31194\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/07\/Daniel-Kirk-Love-Neighbor-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Daniel Kirk Love Neighbor\" width=\"489\" height=\"275\"><\/p>\n<p>What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrdkirk.com\/2015\/07\/27\/healthy-theology-loving-neighbor\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daniel Kirk said recently on his blog<\/a> speaks for itself, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jrdkirk.com\/2015\/07\/27\/healthy-theology-loving-neighbor\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">click through<\/a> for\u00a0the context, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/07\/29\/the-gospel-according-to-1-corinthians-13-part-1\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">see Fred Clark\u2019s further thoughts on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Daniel Kirk said recently on his blog speaks for itself, but click through for\u00a0the context, and see Fred Clark\u2019s further thoughts on the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":31194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[3592,5477,6741,7984,12508],"class_list":["post-31193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-fred-clark","tag-j-r-daniel-kirk","tag-love","tag-neighbor","tag-theology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Love Your Neighbor More Than Your Theology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What Daniel Kirk said recently on his blog speaks for itself, but click through for\u00a0the context, and see Fred Clark&#039;s further thoughts on the subject.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/love-your-neighbor-more-than-your-theology.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Love Your Neighbor More Than Your Theology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What Daniel Kirk said recently on his blog speaks for itself, but click through for\u00a0the context, and see Fred Clark&#039;s further thoughts on the subject.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/love-your-neighbor-more-than-your-theology.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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