{"id":23125,"date":"2026-10-11T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/?p=23125"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T23:18:25","slug":"evangelism-speakers-corner-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/2026\/10\/evangelism-speakers-corner-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Evangelism @ Speakers Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u2018evangelism\u2019 and evangelical\u2019 come from the Greek term meaning \u201cgospel\u201d or \u201cgood news.\u201d The various forms of the word often cause confusion so allow me to explain:<\/p>\n<p>To evangelise is to gospel.<br \/>\nAn evangelist is a gospeller.<br \/>\nEvangelism is gospelling.<br \/>\nAn evangelical is a gospel person.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon has been a regular at Speakers Corner since 2021.<br \/>\nNote: He has no hatred towards Moslems, the issue is with the ideology of Islam! As a Christian he seeks to love all Muslims, while honestly engaging with the true nature of Islam.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sc-11-10-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sc-11-10-26-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sc-11-10-26-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sc-11-10-26-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sc-11-10-26-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sc-11-10-26.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers Corner in London\u2019s Hyde Park is the oldest free speech platform in the world. People won the right to speak in mass protests in the 1860s and early 1870s. Some people believe the tradition is connected to the right of the condemned to a last speech before being hung at the Tyburn gallows, a practice that stopped at the end of the 18th century. Every Sunday people from all sorts of convictions come to Hyde Park in the afternoon to spread their message or to have fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelism @ Speakers Corner. Hyde Park. London. The word \u2018evangelism\u2019 and evangelical\u2019 come from the Greek term meaning \u201cgospel\u201d or \u201cgood news.\u201d The various forms of the word often cause confusion so allow me to explain: To evangelise is to gospel. An evangelist is a gospeller. Evangelism is gospelling. An evangelical is a gospel person. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23128,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125\/revisions\/23128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gcurley.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}