{"id":145,"date":"2009-01-29T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/textmessages\/2009\/01\/what-is-spiritual-restoration.html"},"modified":"2009-01-29T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T09:00:56","slug":"what-is-spiritual-restoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2009\/01\/what-is-spiritual-restoration.html","title":{"rendered":"What is spiritual restoration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slate asked for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2209983\/\">essay on Ted Haggard&#8217;s spiritual restoration<\/a>. I&#8217;m okay with what I came up with for now, but the more I think about it, the more I think we need better thinking on what restoration looks like for very public, outspoken, influential men and women like Haggard:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Most people who fail need only redeem themselves with their most immediate friends and family. They can ask forgiveness of every person they&#8217;ve wounded. How could Haggard ask forgiveness of 30 million&#8211;or even the 14,000 members of his former church? Sitting across from Oprah is no substitute for sitting across from those you&#8217;ve hurt. But he can go away quietly, do the work of atonement, and let tales of his renewed life spring up naturally, Profumo-style.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\"><p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2209983\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">Read it all<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate asked for an essay on Ted Haggard&#8217;s spiritual restoration. I&#8217;m okay with what I came up with for now, but the more I think about it, the more I think we need better thinking on what restoration looks like for very public, outspoken, influential men and women like Haggard: Most people who fail need&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-church"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What is spiritual restoration? - Text Messages<\/title>\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.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/textmessages\/2009\/01\/what-is-spiritual-restoration.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What is spiritual restoration? - Text Messages\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Slate asked for an essay on Ted Haggard&#8217;s spiritual restoration. 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