{"id":10336,"date":"2008-12-24T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pittsburgh_churches_plan_christmas_message_of_enduring_hope_in_uncertain_ti\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T22:23:00","slug":"pittsburgh_churches_plan_christmas_message_of_enduring_hope_in_uncertain_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10336","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh: Churches plan Christmas message of enduring hope in uncertain times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, pastors throughout the South Hills plan to remind, in their holiday sermons, of the Christian faith&#8217;s belief in expectation and aspiration in times of financial and other uncertainties.<\/p>\n<p>Most ministers and priests we talked to said they are praying that their holiday sermons result in small gestures of kindness, generosity and mutual respect that will spread throughout today&#8217;s troubled world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are each a point of light in a circle of hope, and each of us needs to pass this hope along to others,&#8221; is the message the Rev. Dennis Molnar said he has offered his congregation this Advent season at Wallace Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1146 Green Tree Road in Green Tree.<\/p>\n<p>His Christmas message tonight and tomorrow will remind his congregants to take the light of hope into shadowy places.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/08359\/937278-55.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, pastors throughout the South Hills plan to remind, in their holiday sermons, of the Christian faith&#8217;s belief in expectation and aspiration in times of financial and other uncertainties. Most ministers and priests we talked to said they are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10336\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,575,187,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}