{"id":87408,"date":"2019-12-11T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87408"},"modified":"2019-12-10T19:08:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T00:08:42","slug":"london-times-a-profile-of-a-married-vicar-whose-theology-or-good-looks-has-won-him-116500-instagram-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87408","title":{"rendered":"([London] Times) A Profile of a Married vicar whose (theology? or) good looks has won him 116,500 Instagram followers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 116,500 Instagram followers, many more than the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev Chris Lee has built a cult following with his \u201c60-second sermons\u201d, short selfie videos in which he chats about the Bible and his faith.<\/p>\n<p>He insists fans are drawn more to the power of the gospels than to his good looks, but Mr Lee, 36, who is married and has two young daughters, has been sent messages saying \u201cI love you\u201d by adoring fans. He said: \u201cIt\u2019s never a horrible thing to be told you\u2019re good-looking, but I think most people follow me because of my content, because I speak to them on a deeper level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/gods-gift-to-women-wins-online-adoration-gtldf2sfj\">Read it all<\/a> (requires subscription). You may find out more about the parish in which he serves <a href=\"https:\/\/saintsaviours.net\/message-from-our-vicar\">there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTKOFg0oWB\">https:\/\/t.co\/TTKOFg0oWB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Catherine Jones (@cathyjones173) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cathyjones173\/status\/1203961439997890560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 116,500 Instagram followers, many more than the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Rev Chris Lee has built a cult following with his \u201c60-second sermons\u201d, short selfie videos in which he chats about the Bible and his faith. He insists fans<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=87408\">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":[433,94,389,199,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87408","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=87408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87414,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87408\/revisions\/87414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}