{"id":1053,"date":"2016-04-22T09:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergoi.com\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2016-04-22T09:50:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-22T14:50:32","slug":"why-study-theology-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=1053","title":{"rendered":"Why Study Theology in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many<em> sunergoi<\/em> readers\u00a0know, I am an associate professor of Old Testament and the president of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.edu\/washington\/\">Reformed Theological Seminary campus that serves the Washington, D.C, area<\/a>. The administrative part of my job provides some\u00a0of the most rewarding experiences and opportunities of my vocation, and through it I\u00a0get to be involved in the work of theological education in such a unique environment as the Washington area. Many of the people and organizations who find themselves drawn to our city make up a brilliant, diverse, and energetic community of faith, one that \u00a0constantly encourages and challenges me in my spiritual formation.<\/p>\n<p>In the video below, I talk about some of the unique aspects of serving and studying in the Washington area.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/161928550?app_id=122963\" width=\"747\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"RTS Washington DC: President&#039;s Welcome\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As many sunergoi readers\u00a0know, I am an associate professor of Old Testament and the president of the Reformed Theological Seminary campus that serves \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=1053\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[150,44,148,70,149,1],"tags":[131,151,152,153],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-d-c","category-leadership","category-seminary","category-spiritual-formation","category-theological-education","category-uncategorized","tag-public-theology","tag-seminary","tag-theological-education","tag-washington-dc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Washington.jpg?fit=1756%2C993&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}