{"id":54471,"date":"2017-07-12T03:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54471"},"modified":"2017-07-12T03:20:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T03:20:59","slug":"disciples-of-christ-elect-first-woman-of-color-to-lead-a-mainline-denomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54471","title":{"rendered":"Disciples of Christ elect first woman of color to lead a mainline denomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/disciples-christ-elect-first-woman-color-lead-mainline-denomination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Disciples of Christ elect first woman of color to lead a mainline denomination<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Christian Century<\/a><br \/>\n2017-07-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/contributor\/celeste-kennel-shank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Celeste Kennel-Shank<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"302\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/disciples-christ-elect-first-woman-color-lead-mainline-denomination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/sites\/cc-d7.dd\/files\/styles\/460x625_breakpoints_theme_cc_theme_851-1100_1_5x\/public\/images\/detail\/teresa_owens.jpg?itok=eu5KfSiH&amp;timestamp=1499707368\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"http:\/\/disciples.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rev-Owens-bio-brief-revJan2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teresa Hord Owens<\/a> after her election as head of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christian_Church_(Disciples_of_Christ)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disciples of Christ<\/a>\u00a0on July 9, 2017. <em>Photo by\u00a0Mary Ann Carter.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Despite all the talk of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mainline_Protestant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mainline<\/a> decline, <a href=\"http:\/\/disciples.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Rev-Owens-bio-brief-revJan2017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teresa Hord Owens<\/a>, the first woman of color to serve as top executive of a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe life that we will find is continuing to be relevant to a society that deeply needs to see hope,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disciples.org\/office-of-the-general-minister-and-president\/rev-teresa-hord-owens-elected\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Indianapolis-based Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) elected Owens<\/a>, a descendant of one of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana\u2019s<\/a> oldest <a href=\"http:\/\/lost-creek.org\/genealogy\/histories\/feature1.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free settlements of African Americans<\/a>, as its general minister and president on Sunday evening. The denomination, which has 600,000 members in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Canada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a>, has been led for 12 years by Sharon Watkins, who at her election in 2005 was the first woman to be top executive of a mainline body&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/disciples-christ-elect-first-woman-color-lead-mainline-denomination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite all the talk of mainline decline, Teresa Hord Owens, the first woman of color to serve as top executive of a mainline denomination, is not in survival mode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,820,20,25],"tags":[27267,18639,27262,27260,9386],"class_list":["post-54471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","category-women","tag-celeste-kennel-shank","tag-christian-century","tag-disciples-of-christ","tag-teresa-hord-owens","tag-the-christian-century"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54472,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54471\/revisions\/54472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}