{"id":1724,"date":"2011-12-14T10:52:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1724"},"modified":"2011-12-14T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T10:52:42","slug":"new_order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1724","title":{"rendered":"New Order?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0em 1em; display: block; float: right; width: 310px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Kissinger_Mao.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-configured\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/09\/Kissinger_Mao.jpg\/300px-Kissinger_Mao.jpg\" alt=\"Henry Kissinger and Chairman Mao, with Zhou En...\" height=\"210\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\">Henry Kissinger speaking with Chairman Mao.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The following quote by Henry Kissinger in his recent book, &#8220;On China,&#8221; relates to the reasons for the profound one year change from near-war animosity between China &amp; the U.S. to both governments preparing for Nixon&#8217;s historic first visit to Mao&#8217;s China. This is the &#8220;It&#8221; that begins the quote.&nbsp; What lessons can we learn for our dealings with the prevalent proclivities we find in our antagonistic and animosity filled culture and the Church&#8217;s engagement with it?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>&#8220;It did so by sidestepping the rhetoric of two decades &amp; staying focused on the fundamental strategic objective of a geopolitical dialogue leading to a recasting of the Cold War international order.&#8221; (<em>On China<\/em><\/i>,<i> Kissinger; p. 234).<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is such a reordering possible in our two-decades old U.S. Culture War that has perverted our governmental processes and the Christian Faith in the U.S.?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What should we sidestep? How do we do it?&nbsp; What remains of the enduring &#8220;strategic objective&#8221; of the Church &#8211; for those who claim Christ who desire to find a way beyond the hubris, the anger, the bitterness, the spitefulness, the willful ignorance, the vengeful attitudes and actions that subsume so much of what is the Body of Christ, today?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top:10px;height:15px\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;float:right\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=399b2e90-0dc6-4fbd-aa59-43919ff018b5\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Kissinger speaking with Chairman Mao. The following quote by Henry Kissinger in his recent book, &#8220;On China,&#8221; relates to the reasons for the profound one year change from near-war animosity between China &amp; the U.S. to both governments preparing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1724\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,9,26,5,6,20,10,12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-faith","category-imagodei","category-personal","category-politicsculture","category-post-modern","category-quotes","category-the-episcopal-church","category-thoughts-from-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}