{"id":684,"date":"2017-12-11T19:17:44","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T19:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=684"},"modified":"2017-12-11T23:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T23:56:10","slug":"the-parable-of-the-talents-rev-shada-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/the-parable-of-the-talents-rev-shada-sullivan\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Parable of the Talents&#8221; -Rev. Shada Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-686 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lotus-21114_960_720-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lotus-21114_960_720-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lotus-21114_960_720-768x595.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/lotus-21114_960_720.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this sermon, Rev. Shada Sullivan, minister at the Church of the Holy City in Wilmington, Delaware, explores a well-known parable from the Gospels from a Swedenborgian perspective, and relates it to current socio-political, as well as personal issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for a printable PDF version of Shada&#8217;s sermon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Parable-of-Talents-Rev.-Shada-Sullivan-1.pdf\">The Parable of the Talents &#8211; Rev. Shada Sullivan <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-685 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/shada_1_orig-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>The Reverend Shada Sullivan is a graduate of\u00a0 United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia and The Center for Swedenborgian Studies in Berkeley, CA. She grew up in Australia, and\u00a0 came to the United States in 1994 to attend Bryn Athyn College, a small Swedenborgian liberal arts college outside of Philadelphia.\u00a0 She has spent time as a chaplain as a stay-at-home Mom, and as leader of the sermon writing team at NewChurch Live (newchurchlive.tv). She now lives in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two children and\u00a0serves\u00a0the Church of the Holy City in Wilmington as Pastor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In this sermon, Rev. Shada Sullivan, minister at the Church of the Holy City in Wilmington, Delaware, explores a well-known parable from the Gospels from a Swedenborgian perspective, and relates it to current socio-political, as well as personal issues. Click below for a printable PDF version of Shada&#8217;s sermon: The Parable of the Talents &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/the-parable-of-the-talents-rev-shada-sullivan\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Parable of the Talents&#8221; -Rev. Shada Sullivan<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}