{"id":380,"date":"2026-06-08T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=380"},"modified":"2026-06-08T01:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:49:50","slug":"mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-06-08-DSC_0043-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x674.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-06-08-DSC_0043-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-1024x674.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-06-08-DSC_0043-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-06-08-DSC_0043-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-06-08-DSC_0043-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px-560x369.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/06\/26-06-08-DSC_0043-byCherylBrumbaugh-Cayford-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cGo and learn what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u2019\u201d <\/em><br>&#8211; Matthew 9:13a (NRSVue)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Ponder why Jesus prioritizes mercy over sacrifice, <br>in this speech to his disciples. <br>Where could we go to learn what this means?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGo and learn what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, not sacrifice.\u2019\u201d &#8211; Matthew 9:13a (NRSVue) Activity Ponder why Jesus prioritizes mercy over sacrifice, in this speech to his disciples. Where could we go to learn what this means?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat","tag-tiny-retreats"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}