{"id":185,"date":"2015-04-29T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/?p=185"},"modified":"2015-04-29T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:10:10","slug":"a-wildly-inclusive-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/a-wildly-inclusive-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"A Wildly Inclusive Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W3ulkxNogr8\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W3ulkxNogr8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever since I first visited <a href=\"http:\/\/hopecentralchurch.org\" title=\"Hope Central\" target=\"_blank\">Hope Church Boston<\/a> in the summer of 2003 I&#8217;ve nurtured a dream for the church: a dream of extravagant welcome and non-judgmental inclusivity. The seeds of this dream were planted at the Sunday evening Jazz service at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstchurchcambridge.org\" title=\"First Church Cambridge\" target=\"_blank\">First Church in Cambridge <\/a>where I first encountered a truly open Communion table. I found it expressed at Hope in the welcome statement read each Sunday at the beginning of the service. It&#8217;s a welcome message I&#8217;ve adapted and continue to proclaim at the beginning of worship each week, both as a tip of the hat to the community that ordained me and as a statement of my belief that no one should be excluded from meaningful experiences of the Divine. I recently had the chance to sit down and record it with the help of Nick DiLullo, who is a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/firstchurch1652.org\" title=\"First Church Farmington\" target=\"_blank\">First Church in Farmington<\/a> and a fabulous videographer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I first visited Hope Church Boston in the summer of 2003 I&#8217;ve nurtured a dream for the church: a dream of extravagant welcome and non-judgmental inclusivity. The seeds of this dream were planted at the Sunday evening Jazz service at First Church in Cambridge where I first encountered a truly open Communion table. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,67,60,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-extravagant-welcome","category-justice","category-religion","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesavides.com\/steven\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}