{"id":52,"date":"2008-05-18T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/god-is-a-womble\/"},"modified":"2008-05-18T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T20:37:00","slug":"god-is-a-womble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/god-is-a-womble\/","title":{"rendered":"God is a Womble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Today is Trinity Sunday, when the church takes a deep breath and engages with one of its most exciting ideas, that of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This falls at a really good time for me, coming as it does at following the week when I have been studying the way in which the idea of the Trinity has developed over the years and centuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">There is no hiding from the fact that this idea is one that is difficult to get our heads round, but I think that it&#8217;s really exciting because it gives us language for talking about God that allows us to say things in ways that cannot be said otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">My plan for the next quarter of an hour or so is for us to explore this idea together, and by together, I mean that I am going to ask some questions, and you guys are going to chip in with some answers. I want to start with a contribution that one of my fellow students made in class when we were discussing the Trinity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">God is Womble.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Can anybody think of any attributes of Wombles that might tell us something about God?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/Doc?id=dc9cg5ww_115cv8n29hs\"><span style=\"font-family:trebuchet ms;\">Continued here&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Trinity Sunday, when the church takes a deep breath and engages with one of its most exciting ideas, that of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This falls at a really good time for me, coming as it does at following the week when I have been studying the way in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[121,7,120,119,118,117,116,41],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-littleover","tag-father","tag-holy-spirit","tag-isaiah-61-8","tag-john-165-15","tag-metaphor","tag-son","tag-trinity","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carterclan.me.uk\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}