{"id":144271,"date":"2026-03-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144271"},"modified":"2026-03-31T18:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:18:52","slug":"ch-john-donne-for-his-feast-day-thanksgiving-in-the-midst-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144271","title":{"rendered":"(CH) John Donne for his feast day&#8211;Thanksgiving in the Midst of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These poems speak, as [Philip] Yancey says, to \u201cthe guilt and fear and helpless faith that marked [Donne\u2019s] darkest days.\u201d They also answer one of the toughest questions we can face, \u201cIn the midst of plague times, how can we give thanks?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the three poems excerpted by Yancey, with his clarifying revisions of Donne\u2019s eighteenth-century language\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/history\/2008\/august\/thanksgiving-in-midst-of-fear.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">25 Nov 1625: exiled in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Chelsea?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Chelsea<\/a> due to plague, John Donne reports <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/otd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#otd<\/a> he has written out 80 of his sermons (NPG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/lockdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#lockdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cob4YrgVSo\">pic.twitter.com\/cob4YrgVSo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; John McCafferty (@jdmccafferty) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jdmccafferty\/status\/1993286672197525792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These poems speak, as [Philip] Yancey says, to \u201cthe guilt and fear and helpless faith that marked [Donne\u2019s] darkest days.\u201d They also answer one of the toughest questions we can face, \u201cIn the midst of plague times, how can we<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=144271\">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":[186,178,104,133,113,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-eschatology","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-poetry-literature","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144271","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=144271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144273,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144271\/revisions\/144273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}