{"id":3528,"date":"2018-05-18T20:52:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2018-05-18T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T03:53:10","slug":"apr-29-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/18\/apr-29-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Apr-29-2018: The Passionate Humanist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3519\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sermon-icon-apr-20185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sermon-icon-apr-20185.jpg 184w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sermon-icon-apr-20185-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sermon-icon-apr-20185-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sermon-icon-apr-20185-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/sermon-icon-apr-20185-120x120.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3528-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/April-29th-MP3-The-passionate-humanist-.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/April-29th-MP3-The-passionate-humanist-.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/April-29th-MP3-The-passionate-humanist-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>Jim Stephenson<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Unitarian Universalists have been referred to as God\u2019s frozen people. We appreciate dispassionate analysis and a sober search for truth. We tend not to evangelize. and frequently don\u2019t admit that we go to church. While we may be \u201cspiritual\u201d, we are not \u201creligious\u201d and usually don\u2019t practice elaborate rituals. Does this mean we are lifeless and boring? Does a skeptical bent mean that we have no place for passion, enthusiasm, zeal, wonder, and joy? On April 29, Jim Stephenson, an accounting consultant and former Green Party candidate, with degrees in engineering, business, and economics, will share his experience living life with passion, enthusiasm, zeal, wonder, and joy. May the farce be with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Stephenson Unitarian Universalists have been referred to as God\u2019s frozen people. We appreciate dispassionate analysis and a sober search for truth. We tend not to evangelize. and frequently don\u2019t admit that we go to church. While we may be \u201cspiritual\u201d, we are not \u201creligious\u201d and usually don\u2019t practice elaborate rituals. Does this mean we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}