{"id":35118,"date":"2012-10-15T22:35:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_are_ministers_and_musicians_allies_or_rivals\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T22:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T22:35:36","slug":"rns_are_ministers_and_musicians_allies_or_rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35118","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Are ministers and musicians allies or rivals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Guenther, the national president of the American Guild of Organists, reveals behind-the-scenes church struggles in her new book, \u201cRivals or a Team?: Clergy-Musician Relationships in the Twenty-First Century.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Guenther, an associate professor of church music at Washington\u2019s Wesley Theological Seminary and the former organist at Foundry United Methodist Church, talked with Religion News Service about her findings and advice. Some answers have been edited for length and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Q: You titled your book \u201cRivals or a Team?\u201d\u009d From your research, which is a better description of most clergy-musician relationships?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/faith\/clergy-and-congregations\/Are-ministers-and-musicians-allies-or-rivals\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eileen Guenther, the national president of the American Guild of Organists, reveals behind-the-scenes church struggles in her new book, \u201cRivals or a Team?: Clergy-Musician Relationships in the Twenty-First Century.\u201d\u009d Guenther, an associate professor of church music at Washington\u2019s Wesley Theological<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35118\">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":[48,183,435,184,177,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118","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=35118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}