{"id":1401,"date":"2016-08-10T05:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T04:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2016-08-10T05:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T04:53:24","slug":"dont-lose-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/dont-lose-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t lose your head!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we were at P.I.M., infamous as the home of the early 20th century political activist, Rev John Chilembwe, who became a national hero after decapitating one of David Livingstone’s descendants and preaching a sermon with his head on the pulpit as a protest against the colonial powers.<\/p>\n

No one lost their heads yesterday, but Rob and Harold could easily have lost their voices preaching to the huge crowd, and others could have lost limbs in the frenzy to receive Seed Sower texts – joke!<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we were at P.I.M., infamous as the home of the early 20th century political activist, Rev John Chilembwe, who became a national hero after decapitating one of David Livingstone’s descendants and preaching a sermon with his head on the pulpit as a protest against the colonial powers. No one lost their heads yesterday, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1751139753jpg.jpg?fit=500%2C281&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-mB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":544,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/the-curse-of-false-doctrine\/","url_meta":{"origin":1401,"position":0},"title":"The Curse of False Doctrine","author":"Stephen","date":"22 July 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I snapped this while passing through the centre of Zomba last month. \u00a0This huge billboard overlooks the bus depot where we have had a number of very fruitful times of open-air preaching and Seed Sower\/tract distribution. 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