{"id":12921,"date":"2012-01-01T21:58:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T03:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=12921"},"modified":"2012-01-03T00:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T06:38:07","slug":"worth-fighting-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/01\/worth-fighting-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth fighting about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was passed on to me earlier today in an email. As news, it comes a few days late:<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5RnVfXFd5MU<\/p>\n<p>Kerfuffles and fisticuffs are nothing new among the various churches that share custody of the major shrines of the Holy Land. Raymond Cohen&#8217;s study, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Saving-Holy-Sepulchre-Christians-Together\/dp\/B004JZX3QK\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1325476068&amp;sr=8-1\">Saving the Holy Sepulchre<\/a><\/em> (Oxford, 2008), not only highlights a few of these colorful moments in intra-Christian relations, but illustrates how lack of agreement over how to manage and care for such spaces has imperiled (at times) the fabric of these ancient, holy places.<\/p>\n<p>As a Christian with sympathetic ties to and respect for the Armenian, Byzantine and Roman traditions, I lament that these spats occasionally erupt. I have to wonder how such internal scuffles appear to Christians without an appreciation of the difficult history of these places &#8212; or without concern for the ancient historic churches. 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