{"id":18141,"date":"2010-02-26T18:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-new_rival_north_american_lutheran_church_unveiled\/"},"modified":"2010-02-26T18:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:00:40","slug":"rns-new_rival_north_american_lutheran_church_unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18141","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;New rival North American Lutheran Church Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saying they&#8217;re done with efforts to reform the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran body, dissidents have unveiled blueprints for a rival denomination, the North American Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n<p>The new body, which will hew to a more traditional line on issues of human sexuality, is expected to be formally launched in August as a conservative alternative to the 4.6 million-member Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.<\/p>\n<p>So far, at least seven Evangelical Lutheran congregations have voted to leave after the Chicago-based denomination lifted restrictions last summer on non-celibate gay clergy. An additional 28 congregations appear poised to leave.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/life\/religion\/6885760.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saying they&#8217;re done with efforts to reform the nation&#8217;s largest Lutheran body, dissidents have unveiled blueprints for a rival denomination, the North American Lutheran Church. The new body, which will hew to a more traditional line on issues of human<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18141\">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":[42,363,154,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141","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=18141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}