{"id":15357,"date":"2025-05-28T08:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15357"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:49:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T23:49:54","slug":"orthodox-quote-for-may-28-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/?p=15357","title":{"rendered":"Orthodox Quote for May 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture the face of a clock, as if it represented the flow of history. At high noon let&#8217;s place a time that was very friendly to Christians, say the 1950s. At the bottom of the dial, at 6:00, let&#8217;s put a time when Christians were persecuted and killed for their faith, the days of the early martyrs\u2026But, when you think about it, which was the bad time? Christians suffered a great deal during the early persecutions, but rose to great heights in their faith. Their self-sacrifice was a direct cause of the rise and spreading of the faith\u2026 On the other hand, the fifties saw a lot of perfunctory, bland, nominal Christianity. A placid kind of faith was taken for granted, and that was actually an impediment for people who wanted to live a more challenging faith. As the sociologists tell us, an organization that demands little is weak, while a high-demand organization is strong. And the fifties couldn&#8217;t have been such a perfect time to raise kids; look what happened when those same kids hit the sixties.\u201d<br \/>\n(Frederica Matthewes-Green, \u2018Bringing it Home\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15358\" src=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flowers-Lgf-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flowers-Lgf-231x300.jpg 231w, http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Flowers-Lgf.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPicture the face of a clock, as if it represented the flow of history. At high noon let&#8217;s place a time that was very friendly to Christians, say the 1950s. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-quotes","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15359,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions\/15359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orthodoxinsight.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}