{"id":43001,"date":"2014-03-11T02:02:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T02:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/charisma_swedish_megachurch_pastor_ulf_ekman_converts_to_roman_catholicism\/"},"modified":"2014-03-11T02:02:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T02:02:31","slug":"charisma_swedish_megachurch_pastor_ulf_ekman_converts_to_roman_catholicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43001","title":{"rendered":"(Charisma) Swedish Megachurch Pastor Ulf Ekman Converts to Roman Catholicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his Sunday morning service, Ulf Ekman announced the he and his wife, Birgitta, are converting to Roman Catholicism.<\/p>\n<p>Ekman is the founder of Word of Life, a megachurch in Uppsala, Sweden. News reports and blogs coming out of the nation reveal the congregation was \u201cpartially stunned\u201d\u009d after hearing what was packaged as a \u201cspecial announcement.\u201d\u009d The theme was \u201cFollow the Lamb Wherever He Goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Birgitta and me, this has been a slow process were we have gone from discovering new things, to appreciating what we have discovered, to approach and even learn from our fellow Christians,\u201d\u009d Ekman says on his ministry website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismamag.com\/spirit\/church-ministry\/19936-ulf-ekman-converts-to-roman-catholicism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his Sunday morning service, Ulf Ekman announced the he and his wife, Birgitta, are converting to Roman Catholicism. Ekman is the founder of Word of Life, a megachurch in Uppsala, Sweden. News reports and blogs coming out of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43001\">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":[48,50,42,200,419,435,154,184,364,452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-evangelicals","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-roman-catholic","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001","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=43001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}