{"id":52623,"date":"2015-12-15T21:30:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_oxford_missioners_tips_to_entice_men_to_church_hit_a_nerve\/"},"modified":"2015-12-15T21:30:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T21:30:03","slug":"church_times_oxford_missioners_tips_to_entice_men_to_church_hit_a_nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52623","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Oxford missioner\u2019s tips to entice men to church hit a nerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the blog &#8220;Ten Tips for a Man-Friendly Christmas Eve Service&#8221;, which was removed from a diocesan site after an &#8220;unedifying&#8221; online debate, has defended its content.<\/p>\n<p>The author, the Vicar of Stanford in the Vale with Goosey and Hatford, and Diocesan Missioner (Unreached Men), the Revd Paul Eddy, advised the employment of &#8220;masculine imagery and language&#8221;, the use of a video clip from an action film &#8220;as a metaphor&#8221;, and the presentation of &#8220;Christ the man rather than Christ the infant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Churches should &#8220;focus teaching on Christ\u2019s power and mission&#8221;, he wrote, &#8220;rather than just his meekness and gentleness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The reaction online to the blog was mixed. Some described it on Twitter as &#8220;sexist&#8221; and &#8220;patronising&#8221;; others found the tips helpful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2015\/11-december\/news\/uk\/oxford-missioner-s-tips-to-entice-men-to-church-hits-a-nerve\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of the blog &#8220;Ten Tips for a Man-Friendly Christmas Eve Service&#8221;, which was removed from a diocesan site after an &#8220;unedifying&#8221; online debate, has defended its content. The author, the Vicar of Stanford in the Vale with Goosey<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52623\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,94,389,199,125,435,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-blogging-the-internet","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-men","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52623","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=52623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}