{"id":2938,"date":"2021-06-17T15:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2021-06-17T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:30:32","slug":"elizabethtown-sermon-chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/06\/17\/elizabethtown-sermon-chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown sermon chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pastor G<strong>reg Davidson Laszakovitz<\/strong> had a sermon selected for a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/resources\/el-camino-way\" target=\"_blank\">Sojourners collection called \u201c<em>El Camino<\/em><\/a>,\u201d or \u201cthe way,\u201d described as \u201csermons on the way to a robust engagement with immigrant justice.\u201d Laszakovitz\u2019s sermon \u201cPhiloxenia vs. Xenophobia\u201d was preached at Elizabethtown (Pennsylvania) Church of the Brethren. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are dozens and dozens of scriptures in our Bible that talk about the love of the stranger and how we are to treat people, even people who are different from\u202fus,\u201d said an excerpt. \u201cWe know that these compassionate scriptures are rooted in the experience of God\u2019s people because God\u2019s people were often the foreigners and the outsiders themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the sermon<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taboo Topix, Pt 1: Get smart! Philoxenia vs. Xenophobia\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xb8EXNvtL-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are dozens and dozens of scriptures in our Bible that talk about the love of the stranger and how we are to treat people&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2939,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,1],"tags":[69,58,59,60,61],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atlantic-northeast","category-uncategorized","tag-02-150","tag-elizabethtown-church-of-the-brethren","tag-greg-davidson-laszakovitz","tag-immigration","tag-sermon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}