{"id":9010,"date":"2021-12-01T19:04:17","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T03:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9010"},"modified":"2021-12-02T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T18:36:49","slug":"rigid-methodologically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2021\/12\/rigid-methodologically\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rigid methodologically&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2004-11\/emergent-matrix\">2004 interview with Christian Century magazine,<\/a> progressive evangelical Brian McLaren compared conservative evangelical Christians with more progressive Christians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[Religious] conservatives tend to be rigid theologically and promiscuous pragmatically and [religious] liberals tend to be rigid methodologically and a lot more free theologically &#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although McLaren wasn&#8217;t talking about Unitarian Universalists (he probably doesn&#8217;t know we exist), what he says applies to us: we are indeed free theologically, but rigid methodologically. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if we could be a little more &#8220;pragmatically promiscuous&#8221;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 2004 interview with Christian Century magazine, progressive evangelical Brian McLaren compared conservative evangelical Christians with more progressive Christians: &#8220;[Religious] conservatives tend to be rigid theologically and promiscuous pragmatically and [religious] liberals tend to be rigid methodologically and a lot more free theologically &#8230;.&#8221; Although McLaren wasn&#8217;t talking about Unitarian Universalists (he probably doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2021\/12\/rigid-methodologically\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Rigid methodologically&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[436],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-religion","tag-brian-mclaren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9014,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/9014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}