{"id":148,"date":"2025-03-03T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=148"},"modified":"2025-02-25T22:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:14:30","slug":"confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Confession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1002\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/02\/25-03-03-WindowatCampMackPICT8782-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x1002.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/02\/25-03-03-WindowatCampMackPICT8782-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x1002.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/02\/25-03-03-WindowatCampMackPICT8782-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/02\/25-03-03-WindowatCampMackPICT8782-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x751.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/02\/25-03-03-WindowatCampMackPICT8782-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x548.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/02\/25-03-03-WindowatCampMackPICT8782-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>A stained glass window at Camp Alexander Mack in Milford, Ind. Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cThe Lord is king; let the peoples tremble!<br>He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!<br>\u2026Mighty King, lover of justice,<br>you have established equity;<br>you have executed justice<br>and righteousness\u2026..\u201d <\/strong><br><em>\u2013 Psalm 99:1 and 4 (NRSVue)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">The practices of confession and repentance are part of Lent, a season of the church year when Christians remember Jesus\u2019 journey to the cross and the resurrection and walk alongside him in spirit. Lent begins this Wednesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In a spirit of confession, bring to God in prayer matters of justice and injustice, equity and inequity, that weigh on your heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Lord is king; let the peoples tremble!He sits enthroned upon the cherubim; let the earth quake!\u2026Mighty King, lover of justice,you have established equity;you have executed justiceand righteousness\u2026..\u201d \u2013 Psalm 99:1 and 4 (NRSVue) Activity The practices of confession and repentance are part of Lent, a season of the church year when Christians remember Jesus\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}