{"id":139,"date":"2026-09-09T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/thoughts-prayers-and-a-little-more-dolly\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T05:30:00","slug":"thoughts-prayers-and-a-little-more-dolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/thoughts-prayers-and-a-little-more-dolly\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts, Prayers, and a Little More Dolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-139-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/6823c39c\/podcast\/play\/125412960\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-8%2Fc4e7e637-5d4b-80ad-39cc-688db7b9e424.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/6823c39c\/podcast\/play\/125412960\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-8%2Fc4e7e637-5d4b-80ad-39cc-688db7b9e424.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/6823c39c\/podcast\/play\/125412960\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-8%2Fc4e7e637-5d4b-80ad-39cc-688db7b9e424.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>What if \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d aren\u2019t the problem\u2014what if the problem is when that\u2019s where we stop?<\/p>\n<p>Gayle and Natalie wrestle with prayer, action, James\u2019 insistence that faith without works is dead, Bonhoeffer\u2019s costly grace, and the difference between caring and simply saying we care. And, along the way, Dolly Parton gives us a pretty good picture of what faith looks like when it gets its hands dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer matters. But maybe prayer isn\u2019t the end of our response.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe prayer is where our response begins.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>What if \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d aren\u2019t the problem\u2014what if the problem is when that\u2019s where we stop? Gayle and Natalie wrestle with prayer, action, James\u2019 insistence that faith without works is dead, Bonhoeffer\u2019s costly grace, and the difference between caring and simply saying we care. And, along the way, Dolly Parton gives us a pretty good picture of what faith looks like when it gets its hands dirty. Prayer matters. But maybe prayer isn\u2019t the end of our response. Maybe prayer is where our response begins.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdhG8T-2f","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unbound.love\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}