{"id":514,"date":"2015-02-15T01:29:37","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T01:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2015-02-15T01:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T01:29:37","slug":"storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/storm\/","title":{"rendered":"The heart of the storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/pdf\/storm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">play about Jesus calming the storm<\/a> takes up some unfinished business from last week&#8217;s play about Jesus and his family. The theme is Jesus as (in Judas&#8217; words) a force of nature: something largely uncontrollable and ultimately incomprehensible. I think this is a good counterweight to the diminished Jesus that&#8217;s often presented from pulpits and in Sunday School classrooms who &#8211; surprise, surprise! &#8211; happens to embody every good value we aspire to and condemn every sin we allow ourselves to condemn. There&#8217;s nothing about this Jesus that surprises or shocks or scandalizes us, but shouldn&#8217;t there be? To paraphrase Judas in the play, if he were nothing more or less than the epitome of all that we want to believe he is, wouldn&#8217;t that be evidence that we just made him up?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This play about Jesus calming the storm takes up some unfinished business from last week&#8217;s play about Jesus and his family. The theme is Jesus&hellip;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/storm\/\" title=\"The heart of the storm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineskinproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}