{"id":51202,"date":"2015-08-13T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/some_gainesville_area_church_leaders_speak_about_variety_of_touchy_iss\/"},"modified":"2015-08-13T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T18:00:21","slug":"some_gainesville_area_church_leaders_speak_about_variety_of_touchy_iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51202","title":{"rendered":"Some Gainesville Area church leaders speak about variety of touchy issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a formal church setting with nine area Christian leaders present, but no formal sermons were given or messages with the Bible cracked open to a particular passage.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the clergy spoke off the cuff in a Christian \u201cconversation\u201d\u009d Wednesday night on issues of faith and belief.<\/p>\n<p>And that led them into some areas of modern-day debate and concern, such as marriage equality, race and the church\u2019s relevance in a digital age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be having a great debate next April about same-sex marriage and transgender (issues),\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Terry Walton, senior pastor at Gainesville First United Methodist Church, at \u201cChristianity Beyond the Catchphrases,\u201d\u009d held at Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gainesvilletimes.com\/section\/6\/article\/111414\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a formal church setting with nine area Christian leaders present, but no formal sermons were given or messages with the Bible cracked open to a particular passage. Instead, the clergy spoke off the cuff in a Christian \u201cconversation\u201d\u009d<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51202\">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":[36,48,39,40,50,42,209,175,422,66,168,363,98,360,435,154,184,177,151,417,129,108,95,112,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-anthropology","category-baptists","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-lutheran","category-marriage-family","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-politics-in-general","category-presbyterian","category-psychology","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51202","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=51202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}