{"id":130340,"date":"2024-07-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130340"},"modified":"2024-07-01T06:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T10:47:38","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-harriet-beecher-stowe-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130340","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Harriet Beecher Stowe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gracious God, we offer thanks for the witness of Harriett Beecher Stowe, whose fiction inspired thousands with compassion for the shame and sufferings of enslaved peoples, and who enriched her writings with the cadences of The Book of Common Prayer. Help us, like her, to strive for thy justice, that our eyes may see the glory of thy Son, Jesus Christ, when he comes to reign with thee and the Holy Spirit in reconciliation and peace, one God, now and always. Amen.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201eIt&#39;s a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.\u201c<br><br>Harriet Beecher Stowe<br>* June 14, 1811 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/74qTun9379\">pic.twitter.com\/74qTun9379<\/a><\/p>&mdash; LiteraryVienna (@LiteraryVienna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiteraryVienna\/status\/1404323752473772033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gracious God, we offer thanks for the witness of Harriett Beecher Stowe, whose fiction inspired thousands with compassion for the shame and sufferings of enslaved peoples, and who enriched her writings with the cadences of The Book of Common Prayer.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=130340\">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":[186,133,113,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-history","category-poetry-literature","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130340","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=130340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130343,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130340\/revisions\/130343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}