{"id":12282,"date":"2009-04-14T17:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/orlando_sentinel_where_obama_turns_for_spiritual_advice_rev_joel_hunter_of_\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T17:50:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T17:50:14","slug":"orlando_sentinel_where_obama_turns_for_spiritual_advice_rev_joel_hunter_of_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12282","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Sentinel&#8211;Where Obama turns for spiritual advice: Rev. Joel Hunter of Longwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#8217;t thunder from the pulpit in righteous rage. He&#8217;d rather relay stories that make a moral point.<\/p>\n<p>He has no catchphrases, fussy handlers or televised religious talk shows.<\/p>\n<p>What the soft-spoken Rev. Joel Hunter of Longwood does have is an evangelical church of 12,000, a talent for building diverse coalitions and a prominent spiritual advisory role in the administration of President Barack Obama, a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad for a registered Republican who came to Central Florida in 1985 to take charge of a small flock that grew into one of the region&#8217;s largest megachurches.<\/p>\n<p>As Hunter delivers his three Easter sermons today at Northland, a Church Distributed, he holds a place in the national spotlight unmatched by any other faith leader in Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orl-asecbigpastor12041209apr12,0,5504107,print.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He doesn&#8217;t thunder from the pulpit in righteous rage. He&#8217;d rather relay stories that make a moral point. He has no catchphrases, fussy handlers or televised religious talk shows. What the soft-spoken Rev. Joel Hunter of Longwood does have is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12282\">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":[39,40,42,419,616,154,151,667,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-office-of-the-president","category-other-churches","category-politics-in-general","category-president-barack-obama","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282","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=12282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}