{"id":8366,"date":"2020-04-16T21:39:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8366"},"modified":"2020-04-16T21:39:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:39:52","slug":"caring-for-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=8366","title":{"rendered":"Caring for People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bolz-Weber-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bolz-Weber-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bolz-Weber-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bolz-Weber-4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Bolz-Weber-4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t feel very difficult to draw a direct line between the messages many of us received from the church and the harm we&#8217;ve experienced in our bodies and spirits as a result.  So my argument in this book is this:  we should not be more loyal to an idea, a doctrine, or an interpretation of a Bible verse than we are to <em>people<\/em>.  If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Nadia Bolz-Weber, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/shameless.html\">Shameless<\/a><\/em>, p. 5<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Bluebell Trail, Bull Run Regional Park, Virginia, April 17, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn&#8217;t feel very difficult to draw a direct line between the messages many of us received from the church and the harm we&#8217;ve experienced in our bodies and spirits as a result. So my argument in this book is this: we should not be more loyal to an idea, a doctrine, or an interpretation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-compassion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366","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=8366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8425,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8366\/revisions\/8425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}