{"id":42579,"date":"2014-02-14T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_evangelical_women_look_beyond_bible_study_to_new_causes\/"},"modified":"2014-02-14T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T00:02:06","slug":"rns_evangelical_women_look_beyond_bible_study_to_new_causes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42579","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Evangelical women look beyond Bible study to new causes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If past conferences such as Women of Faith drew thousands of evangelical women to indoor stadiums for devotional Bible study, a new generation of evangelical women is looking outward and concerned with issues such as social justice.<\/p>\n<p>The IF:Gathering in Austin earlier this month was one of those conferences. At the Austin Music Hall, about 1,200  women were greeted by farm tables decorated with candles and cabbage- and lavender-filled centerpieces. The free coffee came from Westrock Coffee, an organization committed to safe working conditions in Rwanda. But the wholesome, back-to-nature ambiance was just the start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/02\/12\/evangelical-women-look-beyond-bible-study-new-causes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If past conferences such as Women of Faith drew thousands of evangelical women to indoor stadiums for devotional Bible study, a new generation of evangelical women is looking outward and concerned with issues such as social justice. The IF:Gathering in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42579\">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":[39,42,419,154,108,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579","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=42579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}