{"id":2810,"date":"2011-03-06T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T20:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2011-03-06T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T20:00:47","slug":"bishop-reflects-on-the-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2011\/03\/06\/bishop-reflects-on-the-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop reflects on &#8220;the Draft&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 1962, when Willie Rotter was about to graduate from seminary, President Fendt handed him an envelope. \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d he asked? \u201cYour first call,\u201d replied Fendt. That\u2019s how it was done. You went where they told you. End of conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has been interesting to see the candidacy process in ELCA during the time I have stayed in the US.\u00a0Bishop Mike Rinehart in the Gulf Coast Synods writes an interesting blog about &#8220;the Draft&#8221; in Chicago. The blog is here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tlgcconnections.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/01\/from-the-seminary-to-the-parish\/\">From the Seminary to the Parish | Connections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>via Stephen Zeller&#8217;s Facebook Wall.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1962, when Willie Rotter was about to graduate from seminary, President Fendt handed him an envelope. \u201cWhat\u2019s this?\u201d he asked? \u201cYour first call,\u201d replied Fendt. That\u2019s how it was done. You went where they told you. End of conversation. It has been interesting to see the candidacy process in ELCA during the time I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2011\/03\/06\/bishop-reflects-on-the-draft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bishop reflects on &#8220;the Draft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,31,97,108,118],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-church","tag-clergy","tag-leadership","tag-my-studies","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}