{"id":53628,"date":"2016-03-08T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/robert_ellis_ocms_lecture-geoffrey_studdert_kennedy_the_pastor_and_the_suf\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T05:15:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T10:15:33","slug":"robert_ellis_ocms_lecture-geoffrey_studdert_kennedy_the_pastor_and_the_suf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53628","title":{"rendered":"Robert Ellis&#8217; OCMS lecture&#8211;Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy: The Pastor and the Suffering God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War broke out in August and in September 1914 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy wrote these words in his parish magazine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI cannot say too strongly that I believe every able-bodied man ought to volunteer for service anywhere. Here ought to be no shirking of that duty.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from the man who would, before long be writing this, \u201cWaste\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWaste of Muscle, waste of Brain,<br \/>\nWaste of Patience, waste of Pain,<br \/>\nWaste of Manhood, waste of Health,<br \/>\nWaste of Beauty, waste of Wealth,<br \/>\nWaste of Blood, and waste of Tears,<br \/>\nWaste of Youth\u2019s most precious years,<br \/>\nWaste of ways the Saints have trod,<br \/>\nWaste of glory, Waste of God&#8211;War!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocms.ac.uk\/docs\/20050215_Ellis.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War broke out in August and in September 1914 Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy wrote these words in his parish magazine: \u201cI cannot say too strongly that I believe every able-bodied man ought to volunteer for service anywhere. Here ought to be<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53628\">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":[48,186,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-church-history","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53628","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=53628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57794,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53628\/revisions\/57794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}