{"id":144064,"date":"2026-03-21T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144064"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T11:13:22","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-feast-day-of-thomas-ken-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144064","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Feast Day of Thomas Ken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almighty God, who didst give to thy servant Thomas Ken grace and courage to bear witness to the truth before rulers and kings: Give us also thy strength that, following his example, we may constantly defend what is right, boldly reprove what is evil, and patiently suffer for the truth\u2019s sake, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Ghost, one God, now and ever.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12 Feb 1689: Having refused to swear allegiance to William III &amp; Mary II, Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath &amp; Wells leaves the House of Lords &#8211; never to return (New College, University of Oxford) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/do58IRHMIq\">pic.twitter.com\/do58IRHMIq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/1889743856746344781?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 12, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almighty God, who didst give to thy servant Thomas Ken grace and courage to bear witness to the truth before rulers and kings: Give us also thy strength that, following his example, we may constantly defend what is right, boldly<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144064\">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":[186,389,635,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-spiritualityprayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144064","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=144064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144066,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144064\/revisions\/144066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}