{"id":41424,"date":"2013-12-07T03:20:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T03:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_shaped_by_methodists_mandela_paid_tribute_to_the_role_of_religion\/"},"modified":"2013-12-07T03:20:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-07T03:20:25","slug":"rns_shaped_by_methodists_mandela_paid_tribute_to_the_role_of_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41424","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Shaped by Methodists, Mandela paid tribute to the role of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela, the former South African president who died Thursday (Dec. 5), had a deep connection with religious institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Mandela was educated, first at Clarkebury and then at Healdtown, Methodist boarding schools that provided a Christian liberal arts education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth were important influences on his life,\u201d\u009d said Presiding Bishop Zipho Siwa of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. \u201cIndeed, after his time at Clarkebury, the young Mandela said his horizons had been broadened.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/shaped-by-methodists-mandela-paid-tribute-to-the-role-of-religion\/2013\/12\/06\/f1120850-5eba-11e3-8d24-31c016b976b2_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela, the former South African president who died Thursday (Dec. 5), had a deep connection with religious institutions. Mandela was educated, first at Clarkebury and then at Healdtown, Methodist boarding schools that provided a Christian liberal arts education. \u201cBoth<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41424\">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":[39,50,42,202,133,360,154,108,330],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-history","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424","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=41424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}