{"id":29936,"date":"2011-12-19T16:50:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-father_martin_laird_on_christian_contem\/"},"modified":"2011-12-19T16:50:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T16:50:07","slug":"pbs_religion_and_ethics_newsweekly-father_martin_laird_on_christian_contem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29936","title":{"rendered":"PBS&#39; Religion and Ethics Newsweekly&#8211;Father Martin Laird on Christian Contemplation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KATE OLSON: Mt. Desert Island, off the coast of Maine, widely known as the home to the spectacular Acadia National Park. Here, at St. Andrew by the Lake Episcopal Church, a community of spiritual seekers gathered recently to hear about the Christian practice of contemplation from Martin Laird.<\/p>\n<p>MARTIN LAIRD: (Speaking at St. Andrew) To navigate this ancient way of prayer is to \u201cput out into the deep,\u201d\u009d as Luke says, let down our nets for our catch.  Paradoxically, we discover that it is we ourselves who are caught and held in this net\u201d\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>OLSON: This is the central insight and discovery in the practice of contemplation, Laird says that the God we are seeking has already sought and found us. We simply are not aware of this union.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/episodes\/december-16-2011\/father-martin-laird\/10017\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATE OLSON: Mt. Desert Island, off the coast of Maine, widely known as the home to the spectacular Acadia National Park. Here, at St. Andrew by the Lake Episcopal Church, a community of spiritual seekers gathered recently to hear about<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29936\">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":[36,48,66,435,184,188,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-spiritualityprayer","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936","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=29936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}