{"id":890,"date":"2008-11-02T20:29:50","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=890"},"modified":"2008-11-02T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T00:29:50","slug":"id-apologize-for-this-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/id-apologize-for-this-church","title":{"rendered":"I’d apologize for this church"},"content":{"rendered":"

From World Magazine<\/a> comes this bit of enlightening news…<\/p>\n

Some might say Pilgrim Congregational Church in North Weymouth, Mass., is for the dogs. Speaking literally, they’d be right. On Oct. 5, the church began a weekly “woof ‘n’ worship” service devoted to dogs and their owners. Rev. Rachel Bickford said the idea comes from an invocation in Psalm 148: “Let all wild animals, creeping things and flying birds give God praise.” Bickford explained, “So I thought wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing to let all things praise God together and have families bring their dogs to church.” Bickford said parishioners who bring dogs to the 5 p.m. service will be responsible for cleaning up any messes created by pets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From World Magazine comes this bit of enlightening news… Some might say Pilgrim Congregational Church in North Weymouth, Mass., is for the dogs. Speaking literally, they’d be right. On Oct. 5, the church began a weekly “woof ‘n’ worship” service … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}