{"id":1808,"date":"2016-02-22T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/furman-to-host-christmas-lovefeast-service-dec-8\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T13:55:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T18:55:45","slug":"furman-to-host-christmas-lovefeast-service-dec-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-to-host-christmas-lovefeast-service-dec-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman to host Christmas Lovefeast service Dec. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lovefeast-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9229 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/lovefeast-image.jpg\" alt=\"lovefeast-image\" width=\"310\" height=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 310px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 310\/216;\" \/><\/a>Furman University will host its annual Moravian Christmas Lovefeast service Sunday, Dec. 8 at 5 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel.<\/p>\n<p>The event is free and open to the public.\u00a0 Reservations are not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Based on traditions originating in the early Apostolic church, then later in the Moravian church, the Christmas Lovefeast includes the serving of Moravian buns and coffee and the lighting of beeswax candles crafted in Old Salem, N.C. The sanctuary will be lit by pew candle staffs and decorated with red poinsettias.<\/p>\n<p>Furman will provide special music for the service.\u00a0 For more information, contact the Furman Chaplains office at 864-294-2133.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman will host its annual Moravian Christmas Lovefeast service Sunday, Dec. 8 at 5 p.m. in Daniel Memorial Chapel.\u00a0The event is free and open to the public, and reservations are not necessary.\u00a0Based on traditions originating in the early Apostolic church, the service includes the serving of Moravian buns and coffee and the lighting of beeswax candles.\u00a0Furman will provide special music for the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,42,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-administrative","category-history","category-religion","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}