{"id":33163,"date":"2012-06-21T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nprs_story_on_new_southern_baptist_president_fred_luter\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T15:15:51","slug":"nprs_story_on_new_southern_baptist_president_fred_luter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33163","title":{"rendered":"NPR&#39;s Story on New Southern Baptist President Fred Luter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In 1986, he was invited to take over Franklin Avenue Baptist Church [in New Orleans]. Under him, its congregation grew from a couple of dozen people to 7,000 \u201d\u201d the largest Southern Baptist church in Louisiana. Then Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, destroying the sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would have been easy for Fred Luter to have said, &#8216;I think God&#8217;s calling me elsewhere,&#8217; &#8221; says Russell Moore, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. &#8220;And he could have gone to a very comfortable pastorate anywhere in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And yet, he stayed,&#8221; Moore says. &#8220;And he stood with the people of New Orleans and said, &#8216;We&#8217;ll be back, we&#8217;ll rebuild&#8217; \u201d\u201d and became a spiritual anchor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/06\/19\/155123446\/southern-baptists-see-their-future-in-a-black-pastor\">Read (or better listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, he was invited to take over Franklin Avenue Baptist Church [in New Orleans]. Under him, its congregation grew from a couple of dozen people to 7,000 \u201d\u201d the largest Southern Baptist church in Louisiana. Then Hurricane Katrina struck<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33163\">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":[39,42,422,154,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptists","category-other-churches","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33163","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=33163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}