{"id":20753,"date":"2010-07-14T21:25:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/lutherans_ok_big_change_in_structure\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T21:25:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:25:45","slug":"lutherans_ok_big_change_in_structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20753","title":{"rendered":"Lutherans OK big change in structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution 8-08 was giving many people fits at the national convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.<\/p>\n<p>The title: &#8220;To Realign the National Synod Ministries Around Two Mission Boards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a staid heading, but it represented a radical and historic change to the denomination structure.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters said the proposed restructuring would decrease costs in an era of dramatic fiscal challenges throughout mainline Protestant Christendom. Critics felt the move would be a step toward a hierarchical structure more similar to the Catholic Church&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/lifestyles\/faith-and-values\/article_832c62c0-f08b-5db6-948e-3dd2139412ef.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution 8-08 was giving many people fits at the national convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The title: &#8220;To Realign the National Synod Ministries Around Two Mission Boards.&#8221; It was a staid heading, but it represented a radical and historic<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20753\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,363,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-lutheran","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}