{"id":3904,"date":"2014-03-18T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2014-03-24T17:54:30","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T17:54:30","slug":"christian-science-monitor-hans-wiersma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/03\/18\/christian-science-monitor-hans-wiersma\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Science Monitor talks to Hans Wiersma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/CSM.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3929\" alt=\"The Christian Science Monitor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/CSM-150x150.jpeg\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/CSM-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/CSM-115x115.jpeg 115w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/CSM.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 96px) 100vw, 96px\" \/><\/a>Hans Wiersma, associate professor of religion, spoke with the\u00a0Christian Science Monitor<em>\u00a0<\/em>about whether a Baptist church in Kansas could continue after the passing of its charismatic founder. Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of Westboro Baptist Church, which is best known for picketing military funerals to show its opposition to homosexuality, recently was admitted to hospice care. Read Wiersma&#8217;s comments in the article &#8220;<a title=\"Christian Science Monitor article quotes Augsburg College's Hans Wiersma \" href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Society\/2014\/0317\/Could-Westboro-Baptist-Church-survive-without-founder-Fred-Phelps-video\" target=\"_blank\">Could Westboro Baptist survive without founder Fred Phelps<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Wiersma, associate professor of religion, spoke with the\u00a0Christian Science Monitor\u00a0about whether a Baptist church in Kansas could continue after the passing of its charismatic founder. Fred Phelps Sr., the founder of Westboro Baptist Church, which is best known for picketing military funerals to show its opposition to homosexuality, recently was admitted to hospice care. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[37,597,1234,3107],"class_list":["post-3904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-faculty","category-in-the-news","tag-37","tag-christian-science-monitor","tag-hans-wiersma","tag-westboro-baptist-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}