{"id":62404,"date":"2017-08-14T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62404"},"modified":"2017-08-14T13:35:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T17:35:39","slug":"cc-samuel-wells-what-two-pastors-from-novels-taught-me-about-incarnational-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62404","title":{"rendered":"(CC) Samuel Wells&#8211;What two pastors from novels taught me about incarnational presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God is most fully disclosed at times of our greatest distress and despair. Those people who have gotten themselves into a mess (as we all do, more frequently than we care to admit) might be called troubled. Two novels, George Eliot\u2019s Adam Bede (Oxford University Press) and Hannah Kent\u2019s Burial Rites (Picador), offer narrative accounts of pastoral presence that have helped me discern what it means to be present incarnationally with troubled people\u2014ministry that is attentive to presence, attention, mystery, delight, participation, partnership, enjoyment, and glory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/what-two-pastors-novels-taught-about-incarnational\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God is most fully disclosed at times of our greatest distress and despair. Those people who have gotten themselves into a mess (as we all do, more frequently than we care to admit) might be called troubled. Two novels, George<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62404\">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":[92,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404","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=62404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62407,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62404\/revisions\/62407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}