{"id":71379,"date":"2022-01-28T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T13:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/rev-moffat-jackson-gives-pause-for-thought\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T10:37:13","slug":"rev-moffat-jackson-gives-pause-for-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/rev-moffat-jackson-gives-pause-for-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev Moffat-Jackman gives &#8216;Pause For Thought&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Rev Aaron Moffat-Jackman, Priest-in-Charge at St Peter\u2019s Episcopal Church, Musselburgh, offered a reflection for BBC Radio 2\u2019s <em>Pause for Thought<\/em> last night, on Holocaust Memorial Day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-51510 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aaron-Moffat-Jackman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aaron-Moffat-Jackman.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Aaron-Moffat-Jackman-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/>Highlighting Jewish persecution during the Second World War, and the fact that people are still persecuted 80 years later, Mr Moffat-Jackman (pictured) told listeners: \u201cIt\u2019s at times like this that I am drawn to the teachings of Jesus, himself a Jew. He said that the greatest commandment, besides loving God, is to love my neighbour as myself, and it reminds me that I must play my part in making this world a better place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy neighbour might not be persecuted or oppressed, but it\u2019s still my job to love whoever is near me, to make a difference where I Iive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so if today, Holocaust Memorial Day, has given me anything, it\u2019s hope. Hope in the goodness of humanity. And hope that one day, all people will be free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Moffat-Jackman appeared as a guest on the midnight programme hosted by OJ Berg, and his full offering can be heard again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0bkvkb0\">here<\/a> on the BBC Sounds website. He was also a guest on the same programme last week, and will appear again on the next two Fridays (4 &amp; 11 February). Last week\u2019s <em>Pause For Thought<\/em>, about the January blues, can be heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/p0bjl4bl\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rev Aaron Moffat-Jackman, Priest-in-Charge at St Peter\u2019s Episcopal Church, Musselburgh, offered a reflection for BBC Radio 2\u2019s Pause for Thought last night, on Holocaust Memorial Day. Highlighting Jewish persecution during the Second World War, and the fact that people are still persecuted 80 years later, Mr Moffat-Jackman (pictured) told listeners: \u201cIt\u2019s at times like [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73261,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71379\/revisions\/73261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hillside.work\/sec\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}