{"id":4494,"date":"2014-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4494"},"modified":"2014-08-17T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T03:10:23","slug":"disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=4494","title":{"rendered":"DISASTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Madeleine L&#8217;Engle keenly observes in her book,\u00a0<em>A Stone for a Pillow,\u00a0<\/em>that our English word &#8216;disaster&#8217; comes from the roots <em>dis-<\/em> (meaning &#8216;separation&#8217;) and <em>-aster<\/em> (meaning &#8216;star&#8217;). \u00a0Disaster is thus a separation from the stars, a fragmenting of creation, the shattering of what God formed \u00a0as an interconnected whole.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(As quoted in <em>Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus<\/em>, by C. Christopher Smith and John Pattison, p. 100)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, <em>Slow Church<\/em> may be the best book I&#8217;ve ever read on the nature of the church. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Madeleine L&#8217;Engle keenly observes in her book,\u00a0A Stone for a Pillow,\u00a0that our English word &#8216;disaster&#8217; comes from the roots dis- (meaning &#8216;separation&#8217;) and -aster (meaning &#8216;star&#8217;). \u00a0Disaster is thus a separation from the stars, a fragmenting of creation, the shattering of what God formed \u00a0as an interconnected whole.&#8221; (As quoted in Slow Church: Cultivating Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-quotable"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4497,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}