{"id":5663,"date":"2016-08-13T19:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/?p=5663"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:25:06","slug":"church-governance-religious-education-class-14-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2016\/08\/13\/church-governance-religious-education-class-14-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Governance Religious Education Class &#8212; 14 August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gavel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5664\" src=\"http:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gavel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"gavel\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gavel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gavel-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gavel-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/gavel.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>On Sunday (14 August 2016) at 9:15 AM, the Committee on Ministry will offer a class on church governance at All Souls.<\/p>\n<p>Our governance and congregational polity are\u00a0rooted in the history of our faith tradition &#8212; a history of congregations who govern themselves independently while still being a part of a larger association. \u00a0This is also deeply rooted in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uua.org\/beliefs\/what-we-believe\/principles\/5th\" target=\"_blank\">fifth Unitarian Universalist principle<\/a> (&#8220;the right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Join members of the Committee on Ministry to learn about the structures of church governance, our congregational by-laws, our Covenant of Right Relations, and some basics on Robert&#8217;s Rules of Order..<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact John Ratcliff at <a href=\"tel:318-573-2733\" target=\"_blank\">318-573-2733<\/a> or Susan Bettinger at <a href=\"tel:318-868-0863\" target=\"_blank\">318-868-0863<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday (14 August 2016) at 9:15 AM, the Committee on Ministry will offer a class on church governance at All Souls. Our governance and congregational polity are\u00a0rooted in the history of our faith tradition &#8212; a history of congregations who govern themselves independently while still being a part of a larger association. \u00a0This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/2016\/08\/13\/church-governance-religious-education-class-14-august-2016\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Church Governance Religious Education Class &#8212; 14 August 2016&#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":[14,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","category-religious-education"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663","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=5663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5665,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5663\/revisions\/5665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allsoulsshreveport.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}