{"id":3518,"date":"2006-07-08T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-08T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2006-07-08T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-08T19:00:00","slug":"avoidance-and-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Avoidance and procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am presently avoiding writing a sermon; my mind doesn&#8217;t have enough energy to engage the issues &#8211; might have to be a &#8216;get-up-early-and-rely-on-the-adrenaline&#8217; sort of sermon.<\/p>\n<p>Had a lovely afternoon with a family from the parish that we are friendly with. One of those occasions when the question is &#8216;is this work?&#8217; Of course, the answer is: clergy don&#8217;t &#8216;work&#8217;. We simply are.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of blog posts rumbling around in the back of my mind, but haven&#8217;t had a chance to put anything up substantial:<br \/>&#8211; picking up on Neil&#8217;s comment about Sola Scriptura, and secularisation;<br \/>&#8211; a review of Daniel Quinn&#8217;s &#8216;Story of B&#8217;, which was very interesting, but seriously flawed in its understanding of faith (the mistakes are instructive);<br \/>&#8211; a bit more on &#8216;let us be human&#8217;;<br \/>&#8211; a sequence of posts called &#8216;Wrestling with George Herbert&#8217; about clergy roles (expanding my throw away remark above);<br \/>&#8211; Why I love Wittgenstein;<br \/>&#8211; why I disapprove of the feast of Corpus Christi;<br \/>and one or two less well defined others.<\/p>\n<p>And I thought I&#8217;d share this picture taken today. Apparently I look just like my dad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/1600\/samjul06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/7264\/1161\/400\/samjul06.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a>I love this place.<br \/>I love this job.<br \/>I love my family.<br \/>I am a lucky man.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am presently avoiding writing a sermon; my mind doesn&#8217;t have enough energy to engage the issues &#8211; might have to be a &#8216;get-up-early-and-rely-on-the-adrenaline&#8217; sort of sermon. Had a lovely afternoon with a family from the parish that we are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=3518\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-UK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}