{"id":2933,"date":"2010-02-10T09:14:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T14:14:02","slug":"front-porch-a-threshold-of-community-and-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2933","title":{"rendered":"Front Porch: A threshold of community and ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a back deck, and if you live in the suburbs, you probably do too. I wish I had a front porch. <a href=\"http:\/\/flourishonline.org\/2010\/02\/front-porch-revival-builds-community\/#more-2341\"><span style=\"color: #666666;\">Kendra Juskus, in a terrific post at Flourish, explains why a front page is an important tool of community and of ministry.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The porch is a physical space that is both personal to its owner and hospitable to guests and strangers. It is a threshold of community: neither a place of anonymity, nor of complete intimacy. It is a place where new connections are wrought and old connections are strengthened. One can be invited onto a front porch even as a passerby; it provides opportunities for welcoming the stranger.<\/p>\n<p>Contrast the front porch with the back deck, an architectural feature that arose in American neighborhoods in the 1970s. The back deck is purely private, a sanctuary into which only the friends and relatives of the deck owner are admitted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a back deck, and if you live in the suburbs, you probably do too. I wish I had a front porch. Kendra Juskus, in a terrific post at Flourish, explains why a front page is an important tool of community and of ministry. She writes: The porch is a physical space that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-jim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}