{"id":41401,"date":"2013-12-05T16:44:31","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_century_recommended_books_for_the_upcoming_season\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T16:44:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T16:44:31","slug":"christian_century_recommended_books_for_the_upcoming_season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41401","title":{"rendered":"Christian Century Recommended Books for the Upcoming Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, by Richard Lischer. Lischer, a theologian at Duke Divinity School, acknowledges that \u201ca father has no business writing a book about his son\u2019s death.\u201d\u009d But as the review in the Century noted, this honest but disciplined narrative \u201clooks beyond one man\u2019s death to the death we all will face\u201d\u009d and manages to be \u201cpersonal without self-absorption, profoundly emotional without sentimentality.\u201d\u009d It is a moving testimony to a father\u2019s love and to Adam Lischer\u2019s life, and especially to Adam\u2019s way of meeting death at the age of 33, supported by the prayers and rituals of the church\u201d\u201dwhich is a memorable witness for every reader.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/reviews\/2013-11\/theology-and-spirituality\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son, by Richard Lischer. Lischer, a theologian at Duke Divinity School, acknowledges that \u201ca father has no business writing a book about his son\u2019s death.\u201d\u009d But as the review in the Century noted,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41401\">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":[48,39,574,92,575,187,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-advent","category-books","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41401","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=41401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}