{"id":4772,"date":"2020-09-12T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/?p=4772"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:29:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T04:29:51","slug":"jan-19-2020-what-is-a-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/2020\/09\/12\/jan-19-2020-what-is-a-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan-19-2020: What is a family?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-square wp-image-4790\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-2020-180x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-2020-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-2020-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-2020-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-2020-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/sermon-icons-2020.jpg 383w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4772-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19-January-What-Do-We-Mean-By-Family.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19-January-What-Do-We-Mean-By-Family.mp3\">https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/19-January-What-Do-We-Mean-By-Family.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em>With Sue Sparlin, Beacon member and Lay Chaplain<\/em><br \/>\nIn her role as Lay Chaplain, Sue has been asked to perform a ceremony of union for a polyamorous family: two identified woman and one identified man. This made her question our Beacon definitions of family. What wording do our administrative forms use? Do they say \u201cmom\u201d and \u201cdad\u201d or \u201cparent one\u201d and \u201cparent two\u201d? What about \u201cparent three\u201d? What about families where there are no children at all. What makes someone you know \u201cfamily\u201d instead of \u201cgood friend\u201d? Sue will share what she discovered and open a conversation about how this might affect our congregational life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Sue Sparlin, Beacon member and Lay Chaplain In her role as Lay Chaplain, Sue has been asked to perform a ceremony of union for a polyamorous family: two identified woman and one identified man. This made her question our Beacon definitions of family. What wording do our administrative forms use? Do they say \u201cmom\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772","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=4772"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4772\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.beaconunitarian.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}