{"id":39238,"date":"2013-07-26T15:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/missouri_synod_lutherans_end_convention_in_saint_louis_by_emphasizing_unity\/"},"modified":"2013-07-26T15:35:12","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T15:35:12","slug":"missouri_synod_lutherans_end_convention_in_saint_louis_by_emphasizing_unity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39238","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Synod Lutherans end convention in Saint Louis by emphasizing unity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod closed its convention in downtown St. Louis on Thursday with the more than 1,000 delegates sticking to the event\u2019s unofficial theme of unity.<\/p>\n<p>That theme was stressed early in the weeklong event at America\u2019s Center, when the president of the denomination\u2019s New England District, the Rev. Timothy Yeadon, spoke about a \u201ctough year\u201d\u009d in his region. The year included Hurricane Sandy, the Sandy Hook school massacre and the bombing at the Boston Marathon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/lutherans-end-convention-downtown-after-taking-care-of-business\/article_97f2e93a-d56a-5de6-b941-c0793b7ecdf1.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod closed its convention in downtown St. Louis on Thursday with the more than 1,000 delegates sticking to the event\u2019s unofficial theme of unity. That theme was stressed early in the weeklong event at America\u2019s Center, when<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39238\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39238","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=39238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}