{"id":2198,"date":"2007-01-26T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T00:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/detroit-a-foothold-for-christian-orthodox-resurgence\/"},"modified":"2007-01-26T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T00:17:22","slug":"detroit-a-foothold-for-christian-orthodox-resurgence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/detroit-a-foothold-for-christian-orthodox-resurgence\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit A Foothold for Christian Orthodox Resurgence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.serbianna.com\/news\/2007\/01107.shtml\">Serbianna.com<\/a> January 25, 2007<\/p>\n<p>DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit is emerging as a national center for the rebirth of Orthodox Christian churches, which have deep ethnic roots in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Social scholars say the churches are growing in the United States through immigration and conversion. Next week, many of Detroit&#8217;s Orthodox leaders will host the first in a series of conferences planned nationwide for non-Orthodox clergy who want to explore conversion. <\/p>\n<p>The Rev. John Fenton is betting his life on the growing popularity of Orthodox Christianity. He and his wife have packed up their six children from the rectory of a Detroit church where he was a Lutheran pastor until late October. They&#8217;ve moved into a small home in Allen Park, leaving behind Fenton&#8217;s clergy salary and, soon, his health insurance. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serbianna.com\/news\/2007\/01107.shtml\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbianna.com January 25, 2007 DETROIT (AP) \u2014 Detroit is emerging as a national center for the rebirth of Orthodox Christian churches, which have deep ethnic roots in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orthodox-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}