{"id":1941,"date":"2011-10-01T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T21:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/elephantine-update\/"},"modified":"2011-10-01T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T21:47:45","slug":"elephantine-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2011\/10\/01\/elephantine-update\/","title":{"rendered":"elephantine update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/thabitianyabwile\/2011\/10\/01\/collateral-damage-in-the-invitation-of-t-d-jakes-to-the-elephant-room\/\">Thabiti Anyabwile comments<\/a> on the Mark Driscoll \/ James MacDonald \/ T. D. Jakes love-in. You need to read it.<\/p>\n<p>Money quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#160;<strong>And we kid ourselves if we think the Elephant Room invitation itself isn\u2019t an endorsement of sorts.<\/strong>&#160; We can\u2019t downplay the associations by calling for people to suspend judgment and responding <em>ad hominem<\/em> against \u201cdiscernment bloggers.\u201d&#160; We certainly can\u2019t do that while simultaneously pointing to our association at The Gospel Coalition as a happy certification of orthodoxy and good practice, as Driscoll seems to do <a href=\"http:\/\/pastormark.tv\/2011\/09\/29\/reflections-on-james-macdonald-td-jakes-and-the-trinity\">here<\/a> with MacDonald. [emphasis added]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What a blessing it would be if men like Thabiti and the more conservative evangelicals would finally see that <em>this is the crux of the fundamentalist-evangelical divide<\/em>, and then get on the right side of it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline\" title=\"don_sig2\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/don_sig2.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"50\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thabiti Anyabwile comments on the Mark Driscoll \/ James MacDonald \/ T. D. Jakes love-in. You need to read it. Money quote: &#160;And we kid ourselves if we think the Elephant Room invitation itself isn\u2019t an endorsement of sorts.&#160; We can\u2019t downplay the associations by calling for people to suspend judgment and responding ad hominem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[62,71,140,77,68,44],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-vj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}