{"id":147,"date":"2007-08-10T12:47:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/2007\/08\/10\/elca-leader-re-elected\/"},"modified":"2007-08-10T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:03:46","slug":"elca-leader-re-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"ELCA leader re-elected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bishop-hanson.jpg\" title=\"Bishop Mark Hanson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/bishop-hanson.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Bishop Mark Hanson\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>I find it interesting that I didn&#8217;t post anything about The LC-MS convention which took place several weeks ago.  As I was working on my sermon today and scouring the Internet for religious news, I saw that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\" target=\"_blank\">Evangelical Lutheran Church in America<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070807\/ap_on_re_us\/lutherans_leader;_ylt=AkxctKdoD7JMI1tQ2BQ7rw07Xs8F\" target=\"_blank\">re-elected<\/a> it&#8217;s current presiding bishop, Rev. Mark S. Hanson.  Hanson, 60, begins his second term November 1.<\/p>\n<p>One of the issues being addressed at the 2007 ELCA Churchwide Assembly is the issue of whether or not the church (ELCA) should ordain non-celibate homosexuals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/news\/Releases.asp?a=3660\" target=\"_blank\">ELCA News Service story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find it interesting that I didn&#8217;t post anything about The LC-MS convention which took place several weeks ago. As I was working on my sermon today and scouring the Internet for religious news, I saw that the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America re-elected it&#8217;s current presiding bishop, Rev. Mark S. Hanson. Hanson, 60, begins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321729],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}