{"id":7996,"date":"2019-05-13T15:17:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7996"},"modified":"2019-05-13T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:19:12","slug":"embracing-the-excluded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7996","title":{"rendered":"Embracing the Excluded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Evans-16.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Evans-16.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Evans-16-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In all three stories, the point isn&#8217;t just that Jesus healed these people; the point is that Jesus <em>touched<\/em> these people.  He embraced them just as he embraced other disparaged members of society, often regarded as &#8220;sinners&#8221; by the religious and political elite &#8212; prostitutes, tax collectors, Samaritans, Gentiles, the sick, the blind, and the deaf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a><\/em>, p. 184<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Meadowlark Gardens, Virginia, April 3, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In all three stories, the point isn&#8217;t just that Jesus healed these people; the point is that Jesus touched these people. He embraced them just as he embraced other disparaged members of society, often regarded as &#8220;sinners&#8221; by the religious and political elite &#8212; prostitutes, tax collectors, Samaritans, Gentiles, the sick, the blind, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,17,37,21,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acceptance","category-compassion","category-connection","category-healing","category-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996","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=7996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7996\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}