{"id":135476,"date":"2025-03-08T07:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135476"},"modified":"2025-03-08T07:32:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:32:02","slug":"robert-ellis-ocms-lecture-geoffrey-studdert-kennedy-the-pastor-and-the-suffering-god-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135476","title":{"rendered":"Robert Ellis&#8217; OCMS lecture&#8211;Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: The Pastor and the Suffering God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>War broke out in August and in September 1914 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy wrote these words in his parish magazine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI cannot say too strongly that I believe every able-bodied man ought to volunteer for service anywhere. Here ought to be no shirking of that duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This from the man who would, before long be writing this, \u201cWaste\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWaste of Muscle, waste of Brain,<br>Waste of Patience, waste of Pain,<br>Waste of Manhood, waste of Health,<br>Waste of Beauty, waste of Wealth,<br>Waste of Blood, and waste of Tears,<br>Waste of Youth\u2019s most precious years,<br>Waste of ways the Saints have trod,<br>Waste of glory, Waste of God&#8211;War!&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200518084542\/http:\/\/www.ocms.ac.uk\/docs\/20050215_Ellis.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delighted to be speaking on Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy at the Wantage Literary Festival on Sunday 21st <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wantagelitfest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wantagelitfest<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6O9REbmPks\">pic.twitter.com\/6O9REbmPks<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Linda Parker (@lindamparker56) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lindamparker56\/status\/1052859409209192449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War broke out in August and in September 1914 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy wrote these words in his parish magazine: \u201cI cannot say too strongly that I believe every able-bodied man ought to volunteer for service anywhere. Here ought to be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135476\">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":[175,186,324,199,168,133,106,435,113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-military-armed-forces","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135476","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=135476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135478,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135476\/revisions\/135478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}