{"id":403,"date":"2014-09-18T00:44:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T00:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kriesi.at\/themes\/enfold-business-flat\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=403"},"modified":"2015-10-15T20:10:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-15T20:10:43","slug":"project-2-7","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/portfolio-item\/project-2-7\/","title":{"rendered":"First Congregational Church of Bellingham | UCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor Straightup knows likes to say that \u201cprogressive church is not an oxymoron.\u201d It\u2019s a great way to introduce First Congregational Church of Bellingham, United Church of Christ \u2014 and far more illuminating than that confusing mouthful of a handle. To make matters worse, the name in recent years has often been shortened by insiders to \u201cFCCB\u201d \u2014 which means exactly zero to people who might be interested in finding a progressive church. Thus it came to be that, together with the church\u2019s communications team, Straightup developed the church\u2019s new identity with Mahria Design.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Behold: a name streamlined, an ancient-future orientation hinted through typography and tagline, and a swirling, open-ended mark (comprised of people\u2019s heads!) symbolizing this inclusive, questioning community and its alignment with Nadia Bolz-Weber\u2019s words: \u201cbelief should not be a basis for belonging.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pastor Straightup knows likes to say that \u201cprogressive church is not an oxymoron.\u201d It\u2019s a great way to introduce First Congregational Church of Bellingham, United Church of Christ \u2014 and far more illuminating than that confusing mouthful of a handle. To make matters worse, the name in recent years has often been shortened by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.straightupcommunication.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}