{"id":55586,"date":"2022-07-02T09:00:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/voices-of-faith-jesus-christ-charles-dickens-and-a-new-imagination"},"modified":"2022-07-02T09:00:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T09:00:21","slug":"voices-of-faith-jesus-christ-charles-dickens-and-a-new-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/voices-of-faith-jesus-christ-charles-dickens-and-a-new-imagination","title":{"rendered":"Voices of Faith: Jesus Christ, Charles Dickens and a new imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a wild story in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Luke that all takes place while Jesus is looking for a place to rest. On their way to Jerusalem, Jesus and his disciples approach a village of the Samaritans. Now, it is not news to anyone within or reading the story that there is an animosity between Jews and Samaritans at this time. Scholars imagine that the hostility may have been due to social matters dealing with intermarriage during exile or theological matters concerning holy landscapes, or it may have been something else or any combination. Voices of Faith: You are not alone in your demand for justice in wake of gun violence Voices of Faith: Celebrating LGBTQ Pride, conversion and Torah What is known is that the two communities have been at odds for a substantial amount of time, perhaps since the Babylonian exile of 587 BCE. We are invited to imagine what Jesus and his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a wild story in the ninth chapter of the Gospel of Luke that all takes place while Jesus is looking for a place to rest. On their way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-55586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}