{"id":9768,"date":"2017-09-22T20:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2017-11-07T11:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T11:05:49","slug":"2017-10-01","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-10-01\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Heck is Sunday Assembly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Gillian Claus<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>October 1, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sunday Assembly has been described as the best bits of church without the god bits. It is a congregation without supernatural elements, and pop songs instead of hymns. It absolutely is not a cult (which is admittedly exactly what we would say if it was a cult.) Come and find out the story behind this celebration of life which is now happening in 70 cities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Gillian Claus is a founder and director of Sunday Assembly Silicon Valley (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Sunday-Assembly-Silicon-Valley\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Sunday-Assembly-Silicon-Valley\/<\/a>). She is a Humanist celebrant, and enjoys reinventing ritual and singing out loud.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/241653943\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/241653943\">Humanist Community Forum (2017-10-01): What the Heck is Sunday Assembly? (Gillian Claus)<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/243585870\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gillian Claus October 1, 2017 Sunday Assembly has been described as the best bits of church without the god bits. It is a congregation without supernatural elements, and pop songs instead of hymns. It absolutely is not a cult (which is admittedly exactly what we would say if it was a cult.) Come and find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2017-10-01\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What the Heck is Sunday Assembly?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9834,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}