{"id":45412,"date":"2014-08-01T21:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_mommy_minister_and_unmarried_single_mothers_in_the_pulpit\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T21:11:45","slug":"rns_mommy_minister_and_unmarried_single_mothers_in_the_pulpit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45412","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Mommy, minister and unmarried: Single mothers in the pulpit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Philadelphia\u2019s St. Paul Baptist Church hired the Rev. Leslie Callahan as its first female pastor, in 2009, she was nearing her 40th birthday and the tick-tock of her biological clock was getting hard to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>She delighted in her ministry but also wanted a husband and children in her life. The husband she couldn\u2019t do much about \u201d\u201d he just hadn\u2019t stepped into her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it was clear to me that I was going to do everything in my power to realize my dream of becoming a parent,\u201d\u009d she said.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/07\/31\/single-unmarried-ministers\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Philadelphia\u2019s St. Paul Baptist Church hired the Rev. Leslie Callahan as its first female pastor, in 2009, she was nearing her 40th birthday and the tick-tock of her biological clock was getting hard to ignore. She delighted in her<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45412\">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":[48,39,50,209,101,168,98,435,184,177,108,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45412","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=45412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}