{"id":2450,"date":"2025-02-04T10:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2025-02-05T16:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T21:43:09","slug":"the-paradox-of-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godweb.org\/?p=2450","title":{"rendered":"The Paradox of Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D2450&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p>It\u00a0 is a strange holiday indeed that turns our thoughts towards love, and most often,\u00a0 romantic love, but at the same time bears the name of a Catholic saint and martyr:\u00a0 Saint Valentine.<\/p>\n<p>I can think of nothing that more clearly reflects the\u00a0 often strained relationship between spirituality and sexuality in Christian faith\u00a0 and practice, than this.\u00a0 <a title=\"The Paradox of Valentine's Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.godweb.org\/valentinesday.htm\">Read more &#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.godweb.org%2F%3Fp%3D2450&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00a0 is a strange holiday indeed that turns our thoughts towards love, and most often,\u00a0 romantic love, but at the same time bears the&#8230;<\/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,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[262,264,115,33,53,263,87,31,261,82,95,176,556,89],"tags":[11,51,407,10,448,422,386,385,8],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglicanism","category-baptist","category-christianity-communities","category-communities","category-holidays","category-methodism","category-popular-culture","category-prayer","category-protestantism-communities","category-roman-catholicism","category-sermons","category-spirituality","category-valentine","category-valentines-day-holidays","tag-christianity","tag-holiday","tag-holidays","tag-love","tag-marriage","tag-popular-culture","tag-saint-valentine","tag-st-valentine","tag-valentines-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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