{"id":26395,"date":"2018-08-31T14:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=26395"},"modified":"2018-08-31T14:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T18:10:53","slug":"sufi-wisdom-in-the-diocese-of-b-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sufi-wisdom-in-the-diocese-of-b-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Sufi Wisdom in the Diocese of B.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Christianity leaves you wanting more, if the Son of God dying a nasty death on a cross to pay for your sins isn\u2019t enough, then this is for you. The Diocese of B.C. is offering a retreat featuring early Christian and Sufi Wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have no idea what <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sufism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sufi Wisdom<\/a> is, here is a snippet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDo not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>J. R. R. Tolkien must have been on one of these retreats.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26396\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sufi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"812\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sufi.jpg 812w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sufi-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sufi-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Sufi-500x264.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Christianity leaves you wanting more, if the Son of God dying a nasty death on a cross to pay for your sins isn\u2019t enough, then this is for you. The Diocese of B.C. is offering a retreat featuring early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/sufi-wisdom-in-the-diocese-of-b-c\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[2545,2544],"class_list":["post-26395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-bc","tag-rev-matthew-wright","tag-sufi-wisom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}