{"id":3371,"date":"2022-11-22T18:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3371"},"modified":"2022-12-29T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T21:29:54","slug":"elizabethtown-addresses-christian-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/11\/22\/elizabethtown-addresses-christian-nationalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown addresses &#8220;Christian Nationalism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.etowncob.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabethtown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> voted unanimously to run a full-page advertisement in the Sunday edition of the Lancaster, Pa., newspaper. The statement, titled \u201cThe Perils of Christian Nationalism,\u201d was written \u201cin response to the Christian Nationalism that we encounter daily in our communities and nationwide,\u201d said pastor Pamela Reist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/12\/Elizabethtown-Messenger-2023-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Messenger<\/em> feature on Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren&#8217;s statement<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those who worked on writing the statement included Donald Kraybill, a renowned scholar and expert on the Amish and other Anabaptist and pacifist groups, as well as the congregation\u2019s chair for Witness, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are getting a lot of feedback, overwhelmingly positive,\u201d Reist reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/elizabethtown-church-places-ad\/\">complete statement by Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/E-town-ad-on-Christian-Nationalism-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren ran a full-page advertisement in the Sunday edition of the Lancaster, Pa., newspaper titled \u201cThe Perils of Christian Nationalism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243],"tags":[69,440,58],"class_list":["post-3371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-northeast","tag-02-150","tag-christian-nationalism","tag-elizabethtown-church-of-the-brethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}