{"id":21288,"date":"2023-10-08T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/urc\/im-still-a-christian-despite"},"modified":"2023-10-08T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:30:00","slug":"im-still-a-christian-despite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/im-still-a-christian-despite\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Still A Christian Despite&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I&#8217;m Still A Christian Despite&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Friends,<\/p>\n<p>I hope you found David Coleman&#8217;s reflections over the last week stimulating.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks a range of people will reflect on why they are still Christian.&nbsp; There is much in our contemporary world which can challenge our faith and our commitment to remain in the Church &#8211; racism, sexism, changing ideologies, our own attitudes, as well as those of others.&nbsp; In what I think is a stimulating set of devotions we hear from a range of people &#8211; some writing for the first time for us &#8211; about why they are still a Christian despite&#8230;.well despite a range of things.&nbsp; I hope it will help you reflect on why you still believe.<\/p>\n<p>With every good wish<\/p>\n<p><em>Andy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Rev&#8217;d Andy Braunston<br \/><span><em>Minister for Digital Worship<\/em><\/span><br \/>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Still A Christian Despite&#8230; Dear Friends, I hope you found David Coleman&#8217;s reflections over the last week stimulating. Over the next few weeks a range of people will reflect on why they are still Christian.&nbsp; There is much in our contemporary world which can challenge our faith and our commitment to remain in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/im-still-a-christian-despite\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m Still A Christian Despite&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}