{"id":46291,"date":"2014-10-09T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/deborah_arca_interviews_jon_sweeney_on_when_saint_francis_saved_the_church\/"},"modified":"2014-10-09T23:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T23:44:16","slug":"deborah_arca_interviews_jon_sweeney_on_when_saint_francis_saved_the_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46291","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Arca interviews Jon Sweeney on When Saint Francis Saved the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what ways did St. Francis revolutionize and transform the Church?<\/p>\n<p>Six\u201d\u201ddetailed in my book: through a high view of friendship, by embracing the other, through personal poverty, by developing a new spirituality, through gentleness and care for creatures, and by embracing death.<\/p>\n<p>For many of us, a favorite image of St. Francis is that of him delivering a spirited sermon to the birds.  Did that really happen, and why did that particular story become so central to his legacy?<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it happened, but it wasn\u2019t cute. Our iconography has made it seem just cute\u201d\u201dyou know? Instead, as with many of the iconic moments in his life, it happened at a time of personal crisis and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/takeandread\/2014\/09\/jon-sweeney-on-when-saint-francis-saved-the-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what ways did St. Francis revolutionize and transform the Church? Six\u201d\u201ddetailed in my book: through a high view of friendship, by embracing the other, through personal poverty, by developing a new spirituality, through gentleness and care for creatures, and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46291\">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":[48,39,42,92,186,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-church-history","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291","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=46291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}