{"id":40485,"date":"2013-10-11T01:02:49","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jeff_gill-what_is_the_value_of_seminary_today\/"},"modified":"2013-10-11T01:02:49","modified_gmt":"2013-10-11T01:02:49","slug":"jeff_gill-what_is_the_value_of_seminary_today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40485","title":{"rendered":"(Newark Advocate) Jeff Gill&#8211;What is the value of seminary today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do ministers of congregations need to go to seminary?<\/p>\n<p>Not that long ago, historically speaking, this was a perfectly fair question. Today, it\u2019s becoming a point of debate again&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>What is changing is a movement in two directions with a single, general effect. On the one hand, nondenominational churches are springing up, with many of the larger, or \u201cmegachurch,\u201d\u009d institutions having no affiliation with a denominational certification body. Therefore they have no specific requirement for a bachelor\u2019s degree or Bible college certificate of one sort or another. Each non- or undenominational congregation can hire whom it chooses, and even ordain or not ordain as seems right and proper for its history and sense of tradition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newarkadvocate.com\/article\/20131004\/LIFESTYLE\/310040050\/What-value-seminary-today-\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do ministers of congregations need to go to seminary? Not that long ago, historically speaking, this was a perfectly fair question. Today, it\u2019s becoming a point of debate again&#8230;. What is changing is a movement in two directions with a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40485\">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":[48,39,111,435,184,108,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-education","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485","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=40485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}