{"id":71933,"date":"2017-12-01T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=71933"},"modified":"2024-04-24T17:22:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T00:22:56","slug":"letter-to-the-christian-century","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=71933","title":{"rendered":"Letter to <em>The Christian Century<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before Christmas 1978 \u2013 a month after the deaths in Jonestown and following several weeks of preaching and writings about the lives of his two daughters and grandson in Jonestown \u2013 John Moore wrote a letter to James Wall, the editor of <em>The Christian Century<\/em>, a magazine of U.S. mainline Protestantism, in response to Wall\u2019s invitation to submit an article to the biweekly publication. The letter represents an early post-tragedy attempt to place the Temple in the context of the political and social movements of the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p><b>Statement of John V Moore, December 16, 1978,<\/b> RYMUR 89-4286-1939, pp. 20-22<br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/jvm-xn-century.pdf\">PDF<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"tabbed\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=71929\">Text<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly before Christmas 1978 \u2013 a month after the deaths in Jonestown and following several weeks of preaching and writings about the lives of his two daughters and grandson in Jonestown \u2013 John Moore wrote a letter to James Wall, the editor of The Christian Century, a magazine of U.S. mainline Protestantism, in response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":13690,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-71933","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71933"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126989,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/71933\/revisions\/126989"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}