{"id":24393,"date":"2011-02-05T19:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/alabama_episcopal_service_puts_a_new_spin_on_a_very_old_church_tradition\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T19:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T19:37:35","slug":"alabama_episcopal_service_puts_a_new_spin_on_a_very_old_church_tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24393","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Episcopal Service puts a new spin on a very old church tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Bowl is Sunday evening, but members of St. Mark&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Prattville hope that won&#8217;t keep people from coming out to enjoy a special service filled with fun music in a casual, relaxed at\u00c2\u00admosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The service, held by the church on the first Sunday of each month, is called &#8220;Even\u00c2\u00adsong, With a Twist!&#8221; The service combines traditional liturgy with modern-day music and fea\u00c2\u00adtures the band Epiphany, which is made up of parish members.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the church held a special service called a U2charist &#8212; a communion serv\u00c2\u00adice that replaces traditional hymns with the famed Irish rock band U2&#8217;s most popular and spiritually moving songs. The U2charist service was open to the public, and proved to be very popular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2011102050302\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Bowl is Sunday evening, but members of St. Mark&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Prattville hope that won&#8217;t keep people from coming out to enjoy a special service filled with fun music in a casual, relaxed at\u00c2\u00admosphere. The service, held<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24393\">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":[36,48,66,183,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393","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=24393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}