{"id":52584,"date":"2025-12-05T01:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52584\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:28:08","slug":"churches-political-polarization-and-a-walk-thru-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52584\/","title":{"rendered":"Churches, Political Polarization and A Walk Thru Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) \u2014 &#8220;Politics divides families, it divides friendships, it divides churches!  Senior Pastor of Woodmont Christian Church Clay Stauffer asks,  &#8220;How can we bring people together who don&#8217;t see the world the same way and get them to talk to each other, listen to each other, and have a mutual respect and understanding of where the other person is coming from?&#8221;  Stauffer acknowledges that this division has always been there, but wonders what has changed?  How can churches model how to have these difficult discussions?  <\/p>\n<p>Woodmont Christian Church will be performing a live nativity Sunday, Dec. 14, 12p-6p.  The 300+ ensemble will give visitors a look at the town of Bethlehem as it was at the time Jesus was born. <br \/>The church is located at :<br \/>3601 Hillsboro Pike<br \/>Nashville, TN  37215<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/woodmontchristian.org\/walk-thru-bethlehem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LINK for Walk Thru Bethlehem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) \u2014 &#8220;Politics divides families, it divides friendships, it divides churches! Senior Pastor of Woodmont Christian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[29724,29725,153,155,154,29726,29727,29728,29731,29729,29730],"class_list":{"0":"post-52584","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-a-walk-through-bethlehem","9":"tag-a-walk-thru-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem","11":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","12":"tag-bethlehem-news","13":"tag-churches-and-political-polarization","14":"tag-clay-stauffer","15":"tag-living-nativity","16":"tag-nashville-news","17":"tag-political-divide","18":"tag-woodmont-christian-church"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}