{"id":117,"date":"2011-02-01T15:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunergoi.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2011-02-01T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T15:41:00","slug":"comfort-and-seminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Comfort and Seminary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a piece in today&#8217;s RTS newsletter <i><a href=\"http:\/\/ls.rts.edu\/MessageView.aspx?sid=167914735&amp;cid=167774567&amp;textonly=0\">Semper Informanda<\/a><\/i> about the pursuing seminary in a society which glorifies comfort:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Watching the news about the political turmoil in Tunisia and Egypt, I thought of some of my friends who live and minister to the church in North Africa. &nbsp; It is&nbsp;always good to remember and pray for the minority Christian communities that are&nbsp;caught in the middle of this unrest.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;\">Working at a seminary in the Mediterranean Basin, I have had the incredible&nbsp;privilege to get to know and teach pastors and lay leaders from the North African&nbsp;church. &nbsp;The students were men and women who invariably risked their own lives,&nbsp;reputations, and those of their families to pursue training for Christian ministry at&nbsp;offshore sites where religious opposition was not as cruelly oppressive as in their&nbsp;home towns. . .&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rts.edu\/Site\/RTSNearYou\/Orlando\/Documents\/Prolegomenon020111_SRedd.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a piece in today&#8217;s RTS newsletter Semper Informanda about the pursuing seminary in a society which glorifies comfort: Watching the news about \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=117\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","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=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}