{"id":13178,"date":"2009-06-04T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_rca_to_consider_belhar_confession_more_talk_on_same_sex_issues\/"},"modified":"2009-06-04T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:36:46","slug":"rns_rca_to_consider_belhar_confession_more_talk_on_same_sex_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13178","title":{"rendered":"RNS: RCA to Consider Belhar Confession, More Talk on Same Sex Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 390 years, the Reformed Church in America has a confession to make.<\/p>\n<p>The Belhar Confession, a declaration of human unity, justice and reconciliation that was drafted in 1982 by Reformed churches in apartheid-era South Africa, will be up for approval at the RCA\u2019s June 4-9 General Synod here.<\/p>\n<p>Some in the 166,000-member RCA say the confession speaks to the church\u2019s need to become more diverse as it pursues growth goals. But the Belhar\u2019s text also might speak to an ongoing debate about homosexuality, which is back on the Synod\u2019s agenda for the first time since 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=14312\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in 390 years, the Reformed Church in America has a confession to make. The Belhar Confession, a declaration of human unity, justice and reconciliation that was drafted in 1982 by Reformed churches in apartheid-era South Africa,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=13178\">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":[42,154,413,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches","category-reformed","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178","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=13178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}