{"id":3114,"date":"2025-11-21T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2025-11-21T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:07:01","slug":"graffiti-can-be-spiritually-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3114","title":{"rendered":"Graffiti can be (spiritually) beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/grafitti-church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/grafitti-church.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/grafitti-church.jpg 250w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/grafitti-church-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Graffiti Church,&#8221; New York City<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently attended a talk by one of the pastors of this church, Graffiti Church.  Amidst the &#8216;homeless sweep&#8217; of our cities in recent months, this church, conversely, &#8216;sweeps&#8217; people up in Christ&#8217;s arms.  The ministries here are tremendously varied.  There is an after-school program for latch-key kids.  There are various meal programs.  There are referrals for drug addiction and alcoholism help.  And on, and on&#8230; The pastor said the church&#8217;s mission statement calls for &#8220;radical inclusion,&#8221; patterned after, well, the way Jesus approached the world.  I wrote a newspaper article about the talk, emphasizing the &#8220;radical inclusion&#8221; part.  What&#8217;s more, our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/poverty\">position paper on poverty<\/a> also emphasizes this, in spades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Graffiti Church,&#8221; New York City I recently attended a talk by one of the pastors of this church, Graffiti Church. Amidst the &#8216;homeless sweep&#8217; of our cities in recent months, this church, conversely, &#8216;sweeps&#8217; people up in Christ&#8217;s arms. The <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3114\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}