{"id":115059,"date":"2022-09-12T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115059"},"modified":"2022-09-12T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T22:40:31","slug":"gr-elizabeth-the-great-why-do-many-journalists-choose-to-edit-faith-out-of-her-christmas-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115059","title":{"rendered":"(GR) Elizabeth the Great: Why do many journalists choose to edit faith out of her Christmas talks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Contrast the <em>Post<\/em> summary with this language from her majesty\u2019s 2011 talk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-16328899\">as transcribed by the BBC.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Jesus was born into a world full of fear. The angels came to frightened shepherds with hope in their voices: &#8216;Fear not&#8217;, they urged, &#8216;we bring you tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. &#8216;For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour who is Christ the Lord.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Although we are capable of great acts of kindness, history teaches us that we sometimes need saving from ourselves \u2014 from our recklessness or our greed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">God sent into the world a unique person \u2014 neither a philosopher nor a general, important though they are, but a Saviour, with the power to forgive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Forgiveness lies at the heart of the Christian faith. It can heal broken families, it can restore friendships and it can reconcile divided communities. It is in forgiveness that we feel the power of God&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">That\u2019s a bit more specific, isn\u2019t it? Year after year, Queen Elizabeth stressed that her faith was at the heart of her life and work. Was this a valid and important part of her (news) story?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/getreligion\/2022\/9\/9\/elizabeth-the-great-why-do-many-journalists-choose-to-edit-faith-out-of-her-christmas-talks\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGod sent into the world a unique person: neither a philosopher nor a general, important though they are, but a Saviour, with the power to forgive. Those are words from the Queen\u2019s Christmas speech in 2011.\u201d From Saturday\u2019s Requiem for HM the Queen: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jD6LQm829x\">https:\/\/t.co\/jD6LQm829x<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fp30dRY4yk\">pic.twitter.com\/fp30dRY4yk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; All Saints Margaret Street (@ASMSLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ASMSLondon\/status\/1569340070431260672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrast the Post summary with this language from her majesty\u2019s 2011 talk, as transcribed by the BBC. Jesus was born into a world full of fear. The angels came to frightened shepherds with hope in their voices: &#8216;Fear not&#8217;, they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=115059\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,199,133,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115062,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115059\/revisions\/115062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}