{"id":3478,"date":"2014-05-16T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2014-05-17T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T13:20:42","slug":"18-may-2014-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2014\/05\/16\/18-may-2014-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"18 May 2014 Worship Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/FrancesKelley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3479\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/FrancesKelley.jpg\" alt=\"FrancesKelley\" width=\"181\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a>Please join us on Sunday (18 May 2014) at 10:30 AM for guest speaker Frances Kelley. \u00a0Frances will also be this year&#8217;s recipient of our annual\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson Award.<\/p>\n<p>Every year, All Souls presents the Emerson Award to an individual or organization out in the wider community who best exemplifies the principles of liberal religion.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s recipient is Frances Kelley, Director for Organizing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.louisianaprogress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana Progress<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LAProgressAction\" target=\"_blank\">Louisiana Progress Action<\/a>, and\u00a0field coordinator for <a href=\"http:\/\/equalityla.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Equality Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Frances is a graduate of Caddo Magnet High School and Yale University (where she received her undergraduate degree in Religious Studies with an emphasis on Christian ethics, theology and social justice).<\/p>\n<p>She also spent time in Nicaragua, studying liberation theology and social justice movements.<\/p>\n<p>She has worked locally, across the state and regionally on such issues as healthcare reform and Medicaid Expansion, LGBT rights, immigrant rights, abolition of the death penalty, prison reform, education and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>She was recently arrested in Texas while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. \u00a0Her activism springs from her deep Baptist faith.<\/p>\n<p>We are proud and\u00a0blessed to honor her with the Emerson Award and to hear her speak\u00a0this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join us on Sunday (18 May 2014) at 10:30 AM for guest speaker Frances Kelley. \u00a0Frances will also be this year&#8217;s recipient of our annual\u00a0Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. Every year, All Souls presents the Emerson Award to an individual or organization out in the wider community who best exemplifies the principles of liberal religion. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2014\/05\/16\/18-may-2014-worship\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;18 May 2014 Worship Service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}