{"id":15185,"date":"2013-12-08T09:13:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T13:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2013-12-08T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T19:49:06","slug":"food-for-thought-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2013\/12\/food-for-thought-for-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"food for thought for Christmas"},"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><figure id=\"attachment_15186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15186\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2013\/12\/christmas-foods\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15191\" title=\"christmas foods\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2013\/12\/christmas-foods.jpg\" alt=\"christmas food cartoon by nakedpastor david hayward\" width=\"550\" height=\"805\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cChristmas Food for Thought\u201d (by nakedpastor David Hayward)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>I have lots of art available for you, including many of my popular cartoons, my Sophia drawings and paintings\u2026 originals and reproductions: <a href=\"http:\/\/nakedpastor.etsy.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SHOP NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remember Martin Luther saying something about joy being a serious matter. Or perhaps it was C.S. Lewis. Or both. In any case, a man acquainted with grief can laugh. And jolly men can weep.<\/p>\n<p>Are you allowed to laugh? Are you allowed to weep?<\/p>\n<p>Our online community, <a href=\"http:\/\/thelastingsupper.com\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Lasting Supper<\/a>, continues to grow. Some try it out for a while and leave because it\u2019s not a good fit. Here\u2019s the kind of person who stays: they want to laugh; they want to be able to grieve; they want to be able to get angry and maybe even swear; they want to question every bit of theology they\u2019ve believed; they want to doubt; they want to poke fun; they want to think independently; they want to find others who want the same things; they want to be free; and most of all, they want to do this in a safe space without being judged, confronted, taught or corrected, just heard. 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