{"id":41201,"date":"2013-11-23T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T20:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/what_dallas_pastors_preached_the_sunday_after_jfk_was_killed\/"},"modified":"2013-11-23T20:00:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T20:00:42","slug":"what_dallas_pastors_preached_the_sunday_after_jfk_was_killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41201","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) What Dallas pastors preached the Sunday after JFK was killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing crowded pews and heavy hearts, Dallas clergy took to the pulpits on Nov. 24, 1963 to try to make sense of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just two days before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ministers saw the assassination as an unwelcome opportunity for some serious, city-wide soul-searching,\u201d\u009d said Tom Stone, an English professor at Southern Methodist University, who has studied the sermons delivered that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough Dallas could not be reasonably blamed for the killing, it needed to face up to its tolerance of extremism and its narrow, self-centered values,\u201d\u009d Stone said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2013\/11\/22\/3115769\/what-dallas-pastors-preached-the.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing crowded pews and heavy hearts, Dallas clergy took to the pulpits on Nov. 24, 1963 to try to make sense of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just two days before. \u201cThe ministers saw the assassination as an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41201\">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":[48,39,175,186,168,133,435,184,439,108,164,165,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-soteriology","category-theodicy","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201","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=41201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}