{"id":142928,"date":"2026-01-30T06:47:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T11:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142928"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T12:50:48","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-fest-day-of-lesslie-newbigin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142928","title":{"rendered":"A prayer for the feast day of Lesslie Newbigin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>Almighty God, we give you thanks for the ministry of Lesslie Newbigin<em>,<\/em>\u00a0who labored that the Church of Jesus Christ might be one: Grant that we, instructed by his teaching and example, and knit together in unity by your Spirit, may ever stand firm upon the one foundation, which is Jesus Christ our Lord; who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever.\u00a0<strong>\u2009Amen.<\/strong><\/p><\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can all use a Barthian Bishop in our life.<br><br>1.29 <br><br>Feast of Leslie Newbigin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X30DHb91Uo\">pic.twitter.com\/X30DHb91Uo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; David Szomor (@curiouscurate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/curiouscurate\/status\/2016862958534422982?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, we give you thanks for the ministry of Lesslie Newbigin,\u00a0who labored that the Church of Jesus Christ might be one: Grant that we, instructed by his teaching and example, and knit together in unity by your Spirit, may<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=142928\">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":[444,186,158,481,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-england-uk","category-church-history","category-ecumenical-relations","category-india","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142928","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=142928"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142938,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142928\/revisions\/142938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}