{"id":3552,"date":"2017-02-16T23:02:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T23:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:12:10","slug":"a-role-to-be-played-by-richard-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/a-role-to-be-played-by-richard-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"A role to be played"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Richard Taylor\u2019s ten-year-old son Damilola was killed in 2001 on the way home from an after-school club. Following Damilola\u2019s death, Richard and his late wife, Gloria founded the Damilola Taylor Trust to bring positive change to inner-city communities and increase the options and opportunities available to youngsters in those areas. In 2011, Richard was awarded an OBE for his services to the prevention of youth violence in the New Year Honours list. He dedicated the honour to Gloria and Damilola.&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cDo not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all\u2026if your enemies are hungry, feed them; if they are thirsty, give them something to drink\u201d (Romans 12: 17,20a, NRSV)<\/p>\n<p>John Sentamu writes:<br \/>\nThe Apostle Paul\u2019s famous Chapter 13 of his First Letter to the Corinthians about love says, \u2018Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things\u201d<br \/>\n(1 Corinthians 13:7). In fact it describes the very characteristics we see in Jesu...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Taylor\u2019s ten-year-old son Damilola was killed in 2001 on the way home from an after-school club. Following Damilola\u2019s death, Richard and his late wife, Gloria founded the Damilola Taylor Trust to bring positive change to inner-city communities and increase the options and opportunities available to youngsters in those areas. In 2011, Richard was awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[222,635,636,637,638,639,640,641],"class_list":["post-3552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-jesus","tag-corinthians-137","tag-damilola","tag-john-sentamu","tag-lagos","tag-nazareth","tag-nigeria","tag-richard-taylor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}