{"id":1296,"date":"2009-01-28T19:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T00:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2018-11-04T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T17:13:21","slug":"awkward-sermon-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/awkward-sermon-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"awkward sermon contest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geezmagazine.org\/contest-press-release\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/geez_awkward_sermon.jpg\" alt=\"geez_awkward_sermon.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pupit is making a comeback,\u201d with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geezmagazine.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>geez<\/em><\/a> magazine\u2019s launch of the <em>Daringly Awkward Sermon Contest<\/em>. The <em>Contest<\/em> \u201cinvites entries that explore the aspects of social change that make us squirm\u2014things like privilege, right-wing relatives, the drunk stranger in the back pew, guilt feelings, or litter in the poor part of town. Constructing a more fair and compassionate world involves awkward people, pauses and topics, and we want to find the wisdom in the awkwardness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the key to social change and spiritual growth is found in stumbling, fumbling, oafish awkwardness? The <em>geez<\/em> pulpit is set up and awaits activists, anarchists, atheists and good old-fashioned Christians to step up and confront or comfort, pontificate or confess, urge or encourage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winnipeg, Canada \u201cThe pupit is making a comeback,\u201d with geez magazine\u2019s launch of the Daringly Awkward Sermon Contest. The Contest \u201cinvites entries that explore the aspects of social change that make us squirm\u2014things like privilege, right-wing relatives, the drunk stranger in the back pew, guilt feelings, or litter in the poor part of town. Constructing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8,12,14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16578,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1296\/revisions\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}