{"id":148,"date":"2014-09-24T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/?page_id=148"},"modified":"2014-09-29T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T13:27:16","slug":"comments-from-pastor-steve-hancock","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/?page_id=148","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Praeclara and Second Presbyterian Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steve-Hancock.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steve-Hancock-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Hancock\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steve-Hancock-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steve-Hancock-157x150.jpg 157w, https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steve-Hancock-150x142.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Steve-Hancock.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>A commentary by Pastor Steve Hancock:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Religion is that human enterprise that \u201casks terrible and wonderful questions.\u201d\u009d\u00a0 And the response is often wordless\u2014the gestures of liturgy and sacrament, music and poetry, art and silence.\u00a0 Such gestures can draw us into wonder, love and praise\u2014and thus deeper into the mystery of God.<\/p>\n<p>At Second Presbyterian Church, our lives are enriched and transformed by these expressions, and it is our joy to share them with the larger central Arkansas community through our Praeclara events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A commentary by Pastor Steve Hancock: Religion is that human enterprise that \u201casks terrible and wonderful questions.\u201d\u009d\u00a0 And the response is often wordless\u2014the gestures of liturgy and sacrament, music and poetry, art and silence.\u00a0 Such gestures can draw us into wonder, love and praise\u2014and thus deeper into the mystery of\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/?page_id=148\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":157,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.praeclara.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}