{"id":5327,"date":"2009-08-22T20:39:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T00:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2009-08-22T20:39:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T00:39:02","slug":"alpha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/alpha\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just returned from the Alpha Greater Toronto Area Equip &amp; Refresh Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Although I have been a part of many of the Alpha courses that my parish has run over the years, this is the first time we have considered trying a home Alpha course; my wife tells me that I have to be pleasant, welcoming and hospitable, which proves that both she and God have a sense of humour.<\/p>\n<p>I do like the Alpha approach because Nicky Gumbel appeals to reason to make his case for Christianity; I also like the new Alpha promotional video:<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hz9oTbBUtR8]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve just returned from the Alpha Greater Toronto Area Equip &amp; Refresh Conference. Although I have been a part of many of the Alpha courses that my parish has run over the years, this is the first time we have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/alpha\/\">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":[12],"tags":[2028],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpha","tag-alpha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","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=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}