{"id":44907,"date":"2014-07-03T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/inside_this_weeks_new_statesman-after_god_how_to_fill_the_faith-shaped_hol\/"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:10:17","slug":"inside_this_weeks_new_statesman-after_god_how_to_fill_the_faith-shaped_hol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44907","title":{"rendered":"Inside this week\u2019s New Statesman&#8211;After God: How to Fill the Faith-Shaped Hole of Modern Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COVER STORY: AFTER GOD<\/p>\n<p>For this week\u2019s cover story, Rowan Williams and Lucy Winkett consider the importance of ritual in religion, while the non-believers Melvyn Bragg, Julian Baggini and Robin Ince suggest ways of filling the God-shaped hole in modern life.<\/p>\n<p>Williams describes the ritual of prayer that marks the start of his day and how this enforces the same stillness and physical focus required in Buddhist meditation:<\/p>\n<p>. . . the regular ritual to begin the day when I\u2019m in the house is a matter of an early rise and a brief walking meditation or sometimes a few slow prostrations, before squatting for 30 or 40 minutes (a low stool to support the thighs and reduce the weight on the lower legs) with the \u201cJesus Prayer\u201d\u009d: repeating (usually silently) the words as I breathe out, leaving a moment between repetitions to notice the beating of the heart, which will slow down steadily over the period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/staggers\/2014\/07\/inside-week-s-new-statesman-after-god\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVER STORY: AFTER GOD For this week\u2019s cover story, Rowan Williams and Lucy Winkett consider the importance of ritual in religion, while the non-believers Melvyn Bragg, Julian Baggini and Robin Ince suggest ways of filling the God-shaped hole in modern<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44907\">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":[36,39,50,381,74,67,389,199,89,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-rowan-williams","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-media","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44907","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=44907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}