{"id":4421,"date":"2016-08-12T19:29:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T23:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2016-08-12T19:29:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T23:29:48","slug":"a-stand-up-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"A stand-up pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss this <a href=\"http:\/\/revisionisthistory.com\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_medium=promotedtweet&#038;utm_campaign=LMO-RHLAUNCH-2016\" target=\"_blank\">affecting tale<\/a> of a 98-year old Mennonite pastor who conducted his gay son&#8217;s wedding and lost his credentials.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGenerous Orthodoxy\u201d is the story of Chester Wenger, a 98-year-old Mennonite minister who chose to confront his own church over a question of deepest principle. It asks: What do you do when the institution that has defined your life comes between you and your family?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An institution that presumes upon wholesome family loyalties deserves only loathing and contempt.  Good for Pastor Wenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss this affecting tale of a 98-year old Mennonite pastor who conducted his gay son&#8217;s wedding and lost his credentials. \u201cGenerous Orthodoxy\u201d is the story of Chester Wenger, a 98-year-old Mennonite minister who chose to confront his own church &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=4421\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}