{"id":28986,"date":"2011-10-27T15:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_williams_wishes_a_joyful_and_blessed_diwali_to_hindu_communities\/"},"modified":"2011-10-27T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T15:49:20","slug":"archbishop_williams_wishes_a_joyful_and_blessed_diwali_to_hindu_communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28986","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Williams wishes a joyful and blessed Diwali to Hindu communities in his 2011 greeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury&#8230; [Wednesday] sent wishes for \u201d\u02dca very joyful and blessed Diwali\u2019 to Hindu communities.<\/p>\n<p>In his greeting, Dr Williams speaks of the idea of &#8216;the return home&#8217; as a central concept in the Ramayana, where the believer returns not to a specific place, but &#8216;to God and finding a home in God&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the similarities with which Hindu and Christian mystical texts refer to &#8216;homecoming&#8217;, he says &#8220;I hope that through reading these different passages together in Hindu and Christian dialogue we can find a basis from which to work together as communities and develop greater understanding of the nature of God and of what it means to dwell with and in him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/2230\/archbishop-wishes-a-joyful-and-blessed-diwali-to-hindu-communities-in-his-2011-greeting\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Archbishop of Canterbury&#8230; [Wednesday] sent wishes for \u201d\u02dca very joyful and blessed Diwali\u2019 to Hindu communities. In his greeting, Dr Williams speaks of the idea of &#8216;the return home&#8217; as a central concept in the Ramayana, where the believer<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28986\">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":[36,42,67,431,161,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-religion-news-commentary","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-hinduism","category-inter-faith-relations","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986","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=28986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}