{"id":39745,"date":"2013-08-26T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/baptist_standard_many_ministers_saddled_with_seminary_debt\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T17:00:52","slug":"baptist_standard_many_ministers_saddled_with_seminary_debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39745","title":{"rendered":"(Baptist Standard) Many ministers saddled with seminary debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Congress overwhelmingly approved a measure last month to relieve spiraling student debt, churches probably didn\u2019t realize the problem hits closer to home than expected\u201d\u201dmany pastors are leaving seminary and divinity school with tens of thousands of dollars in loans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s becoming a huge issue,\u201d\u009d said Bill Wilson, president of the Center for Congregational Health. \u201cI\u2019ve heard of totals approaching $60,000. I had one resident who showed up with $40,000 between school and credit cards.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baptiststandard.com\/news\/faith-culture\/15466-many-ministers-saddled-with-seminary-debt\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Congress overwhelmingly approved a measure last month to relieve spiraling student debt, churches probably didn\u2019t realize the problem hits closer to home than expected\u201d\u201dmany pastors are leaving seminary and divinity school with tens of thousands of dollars in loans.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39745\">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":[48,39,40,149,111,168,435,184,593,108,167,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-education","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745","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=39745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}