{"id":38608,"date":"2013-06-08T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/courier-journal_albert_mohler_the_elca_as_a_lutheran_body_is_not_a_church\/"},"modified":"2013-06-08T18:31:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:31:44","slug":"courier-journal_albert_mohler_the_elca_as_a_lutheran_body_is_not_a_church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38608","title":{"rendered":"(Courier-Journal) Albert Mohler: The ELCA as a Lutheran body is \u201d\u02dcnot a church\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler says the nation\u2019s largest Lutheran body is \u201cnot a church.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He says the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America only lives up to a quarter of its name, citing the Southwest California Synod\u2019s election of the first openly gay bishop in the denomination.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is by this act and by many prior acts distancing itself by light years from the actual faith and conviction of Martin Luther,\u201d\u009d Mohler said in a Monday podcast. It has \u201cdemonstrated itself to be neither Evangelical nor Lutheran and, as G.K. Chesterton might say, not a church either. That just leaves them in America.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.courier-journal.com\/faith\/2013\/06\/06\/albert-mohler-lutheran-body-not-a-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler says the nation\u2019s largest Lutheran body is \u201cnot a church.\u201d\u009d He says the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America only lives up to a quarter of its name, citing the Southwest California Synod\u2019s election<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38608\">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":[42,175,168,363,154,159,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-sexuality-debate-other-denominations-and-faiths","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608","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=38608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}