{"id":6904,"date":"2018-08-19T20:57:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T00:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2018-08-19T21:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T01:05:47","slug":"stories-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=6904","title":{"rendered":"Stories and Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Evans-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Evans-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Evans-4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Evans-4-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her story reveals how the biblical text comes alive in the context of community, its endless shades and contours revealed in the presence of a diversity of readers &#8212; young and old, learned and unlearned, rich and poor, historic and contemporary, living and dead.  This style of engagement not only brings us closer to Scripture&#8217;s many truths, but closer to one another.  The sacred text becomes a crucial point of contact, a great dining room table, erected by God and set by God&#8217;s people, where those who hunger for nourishment and companionship can gather together and be filled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a><\/em>, p. 24<\/p>\n<p>Photo: South Riding, Virginia, October 9, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her story reveals how the biblical text comes alive in the context of community, its endless shades and contours revealed in the presence of a diversity of readers &#8212; young and old, learned and unlearned, rich and poor, historic and contemporary, living and dead. This style of engagement not only brings us closer to Scripture&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-god","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}