{"id":3934,"date":"2018-04-09T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3934"},"modified":"2018-04-09T08:49:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T08:49:56","slug":"thomas-the-disciple-and-paddington-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?p=3934","title":{"rendered":"Thomas the disciple and Paddington the Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0447-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0447-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0447.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some time ago the film Paddington Bear 2 came out. If, like me you are fan of Paddington, you will know the story and the character of Paddington Bear.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bond was the author of the Paddington Bear stories, apart from Paddington 2 as he died last year.<\/p>\n<p>I was very fortunate to have gone to his <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IDycfA\">Memorial service at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral. I<\/a>t was amazing and many famous people spoke of Michael Bond and also of his most loved character, Paddington.<\/p>\n<p>Preaching at <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2IDAEmo\">St Paul&#8217;s<\/a>, the Precentor of St Paul\u2019s, Canon Michael Hampel suggested that Paddington\u2019s story was a \u201ckind of parable\u2026. The wisdom of the world is turned on its head and a refugee bear who is accident prone and clearly very different from everyone else around him came to exemplify a very different kind of wisdom. It\u2019s one that says being different is ok: that being cast adrift in the world requires the human response of rescue and that accidents happen, because we are all human.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some phrases in there\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A kind of parable,<\/p>\n<p>The wisdom of the world is turned on its head<\/p>\n<p>A refugee bear\u2026 is clearly very different from everyone else<\/p>\n<p>Exemplifies a different kind of wisdom<\/p>\n<p>Being cast adrift requires a human response<\/p>\n<p>And accidents happen because we are all human (although Paddington was actually a bear!)<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and the disciples were all human, so like us believing without seeing is often hard.<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/?page_id=1086\">Sermons on Faith Goes Walkabout<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rev&#8217;d Sue Martin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Some time ago the film Paddington Bear 2 came out. If, like me you are fan of Paddington, you will know the story and the character of Paddington Bear. Michael Bond was the author of the Paddington Bear stories, apart from Paddington 2 as he died last year. I was very fortunate to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[117,149],"tags":[118,39,153],"class_list":["post-3934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-easter","category-sermons","tag-easter","tag-norwich-diocese","tag-paddington-bear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithgoeswalkabout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}