{"id":302328,"date":"2019-09-18T07:14:43","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=302328"},"modified":"2019-09-18T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T11:14:43","slug":"great-moments-in-sacramental-agriculture-confessing-to-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/09\/great-moments-in-sacramental-agriculture-confessing-to-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Great moments in sacramental agriculture: confessing to plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>This tweet popped up in my feed Wednesday morning, from the good people at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/utsnyc.edu\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Union Theological Seminary<\/a> <\/strong>in New York.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. 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