{"id":36288,"date":"2012-12-19T01:21:11","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T01:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_williams_pause_for_thought_message_christmas_is_gods_small_initi\/"},"modified":"2012-12-19T01:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T01:21:11","slug":"archbishop_williams_pause_for_thought_message_christmas_is_gods_small_initi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36288","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Williams&#39; \u201d\u02dcPause for Thought\u2019 message \u201d\u201c \u201d\u02dcChristmas is God\u2019s small initiative&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be amazed that the Pope is tweeting \u201d\u201c and there was a news story the other day about bishops in England using Twitter for their Christmas messages.  The surprise reminds me of the way people pretend to be astonished when clergy admit to having heard the occasional rude word (never mind clergy actually using them\u201d\u00a6) or having watched a soap.  It\u2019s taken for granted that we\u2019re far too unworldly for all this.<\/p>\n<p>Even speaking as someone who struggles with any kind of technology, I don\u2019t think it should be assumed that all my fellow clergy are or ought to be as dim as I am in this area.  And I don\u2019t buy into the panic that sometimes gets stirred up about social media and electronic communication.  OK, we all know it can be poisonous and destructive at times.  But there\u2019s another side to it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/2755\/archbishops-bbc-radio-2-pause-for-thought-message-christmas-is-gods-small-initiative\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone seems to be amazed that the Pope is tweeting \u201d\u201c and there was a news story the other day about bishops in England using Twitter for their Christmas messages. The surprise reminds me of the way people pretend to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36288\">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":[36,48,39,50,381,433,67,94,575,162,187,199,108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-social-networking","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-blogging-the-internet","category-christmas","category-christology","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36288","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=36288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}