{"id":886,"date":"2014-02-15T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/02\/love-and-happiness.html"},"modified":"2014-02-15T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T07:33:00","slug":"love-and-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/02\/love-and-happiness.html","title":{"rendered":"Love and Happiness"},"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><div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 23.25px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 15px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">As Valentine\u2019s Day approaches, it seems normal to think of love, perhaps with cynicism or hope or a mix of conflicted emotions.\u00a0 Last year, I wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/feminismandreligion.com\/2013\/02\/14\/living-by-an-ethic-of-love-by-elise-m-edwards\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a post on this site about Valentine\u2019s Day<\/a>, and I\u2019m happy to contribute this year around the same time.\u00a0 But this year I\u2019ve been doing a different kind of reflection.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s because I just took my artificial Christmas tree down this past weekend, but I\u2019ve been a little slow to get in the Valentine\u2019s spirit, more specifically to reflect on the idea of a holiday dedicated to love.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 23.25px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 15px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">It\u2019s not that I haven\u2019t been\u00a0<em style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">talking<\/em>\u00a0about love and relationships\u2014I\u2019ve been doing a lot of that lately.\u00a0 I\u2019m teaching a class that is currently in the middle of a unit on Christian sexual ethics, I\u2019ve been conversing with friends about their upcoming weddings and future plans, and I have spent a lot of time on the phone navigating the terrain of a long-distance relationship.\u00a0 But all this talk hasn\u2019t left me too much time to reflect.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t until last night, as the church choir rehearsal I was attending was ending, that my thoughts of devouring chocolate hearts were interrupted by a litany prepared by two choir members in honor of Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;line-height: 23.25px;margin-bottom: 15px;margin-top: 15px;padding: 0px\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif\">Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/feminismandreligion.com\/2014\/02\/13\/love-and-happiness-by-elise-m-edwards\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Valentine\u2019s Day approaches, it seems normal to think of love, perhaps with cynicism or hope or a mix of conflicted emotions.\u00a0 Last year, I wrote\u00a0a post on this site about Valentine\u2019s Day, and I\u2019m happy to contribute this year around the same time.\u00a0 But this year I\u2019ve been doing a different kind of reflection.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Love and Happiness<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"As Valentine\u2019s Day approaches, it seems normal to think of love, perhaps with cynicism or hope or a mix of conflicted emotions.&nbsp; 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