{"id":397,"date":"2011-04-14T15:28:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markdroberts\/?p=397"},"modified":"2015-03-13T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T20:40:08","slug":"the-peculiar-task-of-preaching-on-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markdroberts\/2011\/04\/14\/the-peculiar-task-of-preaching-on-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peculiar Task of Preaching on Easter"},"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>My most recent column for the Patheos Preachers Portal is up. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Easter requires peculiar preaching. I don\u2019t mean this in a negative way.  I mean that preaching on Easter is unusual for a variety of reasons.  Preachers would do well, I believe, to attend to the distinctive demands  of Easter preaching, so that we might be faithful and effective  channels of the good news of the resurrection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/Resources\/Additional-Resources\/Peculiar-Task-of-Preaching-on-Easter-Mark-Roberts-04-14-2011.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\">You can find the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My most recent column for the Patheos Preachers Portal is up. Here\u2019s how it begins: Easter requires peculiar preaching. I don\u2019t mean this in a negative way. I mean that preaching on Easter is unusual for a variety of reasons. Preachers would do well, I believe, to attend to the distinctive demands of Easter preaching, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8146],"tags":[8147,21643],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preachers-portal","tag-easter-preaching","tag-preachers-portal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Peculiar Task of Preaching on Easter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"My most recent column for the Patheos Preachers Portal is up. Here&#039;s how it begins: Easter requires peculiar preaching. 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