{"id":52031,"date":"2015-10-12T00:29:37","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/evangelical_convert_and_news_commentator_kristen_powers_announces_shes_join\/"},"modified":"2015-10-12T00:29:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T00:29:37","slug":"evangelical_convert_and_news_commentator_kristen_powers_announces_shes_join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52031","title":{"rendered":"Evangelical convert and news commentator Kristen Powers announces she&#39;s joining the Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u2019 highly reluctant Jesus follower has found a new church.<br \/>\nKirsten Powers, USA Today columnist and contributor to Fox News, announced her decision on a live broadcast of \u201cThe Five.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\n\u201cTomorrow night at 7 o\u2019clock, I&#8217;m becoming Catholic!\u201d\u009d she told viewers.<br \/>\nPowers, who grew up in the Episcopal Church, became an evangelical about 9 years ago, after attending Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York. Listening to Tim Keller preach opened the door for her to believe in God.<br \/>\n\u201cI came to realize that even if Christianity wasn&#8217;t the real thing, neither was atheism,\u201d\u009d she wrote in a 2013 testimony for CT. \u201cI began to read the Bible. My boyfriend would pray with me for God to reveal himself to me.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/gleanings\/2015\/october\/pope-francis-newest-convert-kirsten-powers.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News\u2019 highly reluctant Jesus follower has found a new church. Kirsten Powers, USA Today columnist and contributor to Fox News, announced her decision on a live broadcast of \u201cThe Five.\u201d\u009d \u201cTomorrow night at 7 o\u2019clock, I&#8217;m becoming Catholic!\u201d\u009d she<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=52031\">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":[36,39,50,42,209,66,419,89,154,108,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelicals","category-media","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52031","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=52031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}